Tout

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  • intransitive verb. To promote or praise energetically; publicize.
  • intransitive verb. To solicit or importune.
  • intransitive verb. To obtain or sell information on (a racehorse or stable) for the guidance of bettors.
  • intransitive verb. To solicit customers, votes, or patronage, especially in a brazen way.
  • intransitive verb. To obtain and deal in information on racehorses.
  • noun. One who solicits customers brazenly or persistently.
  • noun. One who obtains information on racehorses and their prospects and sells it to bettors.
  • noun. One who informs against others; an informer.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The buttocks; the backside; the fundament.
  • To pout; be seized with a sudden fit of ill humor.
  • To look about; spy; specifically, in modern racing slang, to spy out the movements of race-horses at training.
  • To look about for customers; solicit custom, employment, or the like.
  • To follow.
  • noun. A pet; a huff; a fit of ill humor.
  • noun. A fit or slight attack of illness.
  • noun. Same as touter.
  • noun. In horse-racing, a person who clandestinely watches the trials of race-horses at their training quarters and for a fee gives information for betting purposes.
  • noun. In the game of solo, a play when one person takes or proposes to take all the tricks. Also touter.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To act as a tout. See 2d tout.
  • intransitive verb. To ply or seek for customers.
  • noun. In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks.
  • intransitive verb. To toot a horn.
  • intransitive verb. To look narrowly; spy.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To spy out the movements of race horses at their trials, or to get by stealth or other improper means the secrets of the stable, for betting purposes.
  • intransitive verb. To act as a tout; to tout, or give a tip on, a race horse.
  • noun. One who secretly watches race horses which are in course of training, to get information about their capabilities, for use in betting.
  • noun. One who gives a tip on a race horses for an expected compensation, esp. in hopes of a share in any winnings; -- usually contemptuous.
  • noun. One who solicits custom, as a runner for a hotel, cab, gambling place.
  • noun. A spy for a smuggler, thief, or the like.
  • noun. The anus.
  • transitive verb. To spy out information about, as a racing stable or horse.
  • transitive verb. To give a tip on (a race horse) to a better with the expectation of sharing in the latter's winnings.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.
  • noun. A person, at a racecourse, who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win
  • verb. To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag; to promote.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way
  • noun. one who sells advice about gambling or speculation (especially at the racetrack)
  • verb. advertize in strongly positive terms
  • verb. show off
  • noun. someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit
  • Word Usage
    "Frenchman, that "_comprendre tout, c'est pardonner tout_," or, better yet, that to understand all is to understand that there is nothing to pardon, will not be chary of their cheers to him who is able to advance their cause, nor of their curses upon him who betrays it."
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