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tout

  [tout] ,Informal.
Use tout in a Sentence
–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.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Financial Dictionary

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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