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tout

  [tout] ,Informal.
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–verb (used without object)
1. to solicit business, employment, votes, or the like, importunately.
2. Horse Racing. to act as a tout.
–verb (used with object)
3. to solicit support for importunately.
4. to describe or advertise boastfully; publicize or promote; praise extravagantly: a highly touted nightclub.
5. Horse Racing.
a. to provide information on (a horse) running in a particular race, esp. for a fee.
b. to spy on (a horse in training) in order to gain information for the purpose of betting.
6. to watch; spy on.
–noun
7. a person who solicits business, employment, support, or the like, importunately.
8. Horse Racing.
a. a person who gives information on a horse, esp. for a fee.
b. Chiefly British. a person who spies on a horse in training for the purpose of betting.
9. British. a ticket scalper.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME tuten to look out, peer; prob. akin to OE tōtian to peep out
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tout   (tout)   
v.   tout·ed, tout·ing, touts

v.   intr.
  1. To solicit customers, votes, or patronage, especially in a brazen way.
  2. To obtain and deal in information on racehorses.
v.   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).
n.  
  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.

[Middle English tuten, to peer.]
tout'er n.
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Tout

Tout\, n. [Prob. fr. F. tout all.] In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks.

Tout

Tout\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Touted; p. pr. & vb. n. Touting.]

1. To look narrowly; spy. [Scot. & Dial. Eng.]

2. (Horse Racing) (a) 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. [Cant, Eng.] (b) To act as a tout; to tout, or give a tip on, a race horse. [Cant, U. S.]

Tout

Tout\, v. t. (Horse Racing) (a) To spy out information about, as a racing stable or horse. [Cant, Eng.] (b) To give a tip on (a race horse) to a better with the expectation of sharing in the latter's winnings. [Cant, U. S.]

Tout

Tout\, n. 1. One who gives a tip on a race horses for an expected compensation, esp. in hopes of a share in any winnings; -- usually contemptuous. [Cant, U. S.]

2. One who solicits custom, as a runner for a hotel, cab, gambling place. [Colloq.]

3. A spy for a smuggler, thief, or the like. [Colloq.]

Tout

Tout\ (t[=oo]t), v. i. [See 1st Toot.]

1. To act as a tout. See 2d Tout. [Cant. Eng.]

2. To ply or seek for customers. [Prov. Eng.]

Tout

Tout\, n. One who secretly watches race horses which are in course of training, to get information about their capabilities, for use in betting. [Cant. Eng.]

Tout

Tout\, v. i. [See 3d Toot. ] To toot a horn.

Tout

Tout\, n. The anus. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Language Translation for : Tout
Spanish: buscar, intentar captar,
German: werben,
Japanese: 求める
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tout 
1700, thieves' cant, "to act as a lookout, spy on," from M.E. tuten "to peep, peer," probably from a variant of O.E. totian "to stick out, peep, peer," from P.Gmc. *tut- "project" (cf. Du. tuit "sprout, snout," M.Du. tute "nipple, pap," M.L.G. tute "horn, funnel," O.N. tota "teat, toe of a shoe"). The sense developed to "look out for jobs, votes, etc., to try to get them" (1731), then "praise highly" (1920).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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tout

To foster interest in a particular company or security. For example, a broker might tout a security to a client in the hope that the client will purchase the security.

Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms by David L. Scott.
Copyright © 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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