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tout  audio  (tout) KEY 

VERB:
tout·ed, tout·ing, touts
VERB:
intr.
  1. To solicit customers, votes, or patronage, especially in a brazen way.
  2. To obtain and deal in information on racehorses.
VERB:
tr.
  1. To solicit or importune: street vendors who were touting pedestrians.
  2. Chiefly British To obtain or sell information on (a racehorse or stable) for the guidance of bettors.
  3. To promote or praise energetically; publicize: "For every study touting the benefits of hormone therapy, another warns of the risks" (Yanick Rice Lamb).
NOUN:
  1. Chiefly British One who obtains information on racehorses and their prospects and sells it to bettors.
  2. One who solicits customers brazenly or persistently: "The administration of the nation's literary affairs falls naturally into the hands of touts and thieves" (Lewis H. Lapham).
  3. Chiefly Scots and Irish Slang One who informs against others; an informer.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English tuten, to peer

OTHER FORMS:
touter(Noun)


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