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tout
 (tout)
KEY
VERB:
tout·ed
,
tout·ing
,
touts
VERB:
intr.
- To solicit customers, votes, or patronage, especially in a brazen way.
- To obtain and deal in information on racehorses.
VERB:
tr.
- To solicit or importune:
street vendors who were touting pedestrians.
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Chiefly British
To obtain or sell information on (a racehorse or stable) for the guidance of bettors.
- To promote or praise energetically; publicize:
"For every study touting the benefits of hormone therapy, another warns of the risks"
(Yanick Rice Lamb).
NOUN:
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Chiefly British
One who obtains information on racehorses and their prospects and sells it to bettors.
- 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).
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Chiefly Scots and Irish Slang
One who informs against others; an informer.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English tuten, to peer
OTHER FORMS:
tout er
(Noun)
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