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tout
[ tout ]
verb (used without object)
- to persistently solicit business, employment, votes, or the like.
- Horse Racing. to act as a tout.
verb (used with object)
- to persistently solicit support for.
- to describe or advertise boastfully; publicize or promote; praise extravagantly:
a highly touted nightclub.
- Horse Racing.
- to provide information on (a horse) running in a particular race, especially for a fee.
- to spy on (a horse in training) in order to gain information for the purpose of betting.
- to watch; spy on.
noun
- a person who persistently solicits business, employment, support, or the like.
- Horse Racing.
- a person who gives information on a horse, especially for a fee.
- Chiefly British. a person who spies on a horse in training for the purpose of betting.
- British. a ticket scalper.
tout
/ 迟补蕣迟 /
verb
- to solicit (business, customers, etc) or hawk (merchandise), esp in a brazen way
- intr
- to spy on racehorses being trained in order to obtain information for betting purposes
- to sell, or attempt to sell, such information or to take bets, esp in public places
- informal.tr to recommend flatteringly or excessively
noun
- a person who spies on racehorses so as to obtain betting information to sell
- a person who sells information obtained by such spying
- a person who solicits business in a brazen way
- Also calledticket tout a person who sells tickets unofficially for a heavily booked sporting event, concert, etc, at greatly inflated prices
- a police informer
Derived Forms
- 藞迟辞耻迟别谤, noun
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of tout1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of tout1
Example Sentences
For these reasons, Precheur believes it was disrespectful to the quality of the league to tout London City Lionesses as champions-in-waiting before a ball had been kicked.
In the past year, her comeback single Woman's World, touted as a female empowerment anthem, struck critics as lyrically shallow.
In recent interviews, including one published by Gallup last summer during the presidential campaign, he has delicately handled questions about Trump, opting instead to tout his belief in the unifying role of education.
And, on paper at least, state prison officials have touted the transfers as a success.
At Wednesday's White House event, Trump touted planned investments in technology, healthcare and infrastructure.
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