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tout

[ tout ]

verb (used without object)

  1. to persistently solicit business, employment, votes, or the like.
  2. Horse Racing. to act as a tout.


verb (used with object)

  1. to persistently solicit support for.
  2. to describe or advertise boastfully; publicize or promote; praise extravagantly:

    a highly touted nightclub.

  3. Horse Racing.
    1. to provide information on (a horse) running in a particular race, especially for a fee.
    2. to spy on (a horse in training) in order to gain information for the purpose of betting.
  4. to watch; spy on.

noun

  1. a person who persistently solicits business, employment, support, or the like.
  2. Horse Racing.
    1. a person who gives information on a horse, especially for a fee.
    2. Chiefly British. a person who spies on a horse in training for the purpose of betting.
  3. British. a ticket scalper.

tout

/ taʊt /

verb

  1. to solicit (business, customers, etc) or hawk (merchandise), esp in a brazen way
  2. intr
    1. to spy on racehorses being trained in order to obtain information for betting purposes
    2. to sell, or attempt to sell, such information or to take bets, esp in public places
  3. informal.
    tr to recommend flatteringly or excessively


noun

    1. a person who spies on racehorses so as to obtain betting information to sell
    2. a person who sells information obtained by such spying
  1. a person who solicits business in a brazen way
  2. Also calledticket tout a person who sells tickets unofficially for a heavily booked sporting event, concert, etc, at greatly inflated prices
  3. a police informer

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Derived Forms

  • ˈtouter, noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of tout1

First recorded in 1350–1400; from Middle English tuten “to look out, peer”; probably akin to Old English tōtian “to peep out”

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Word History and Origins

Origin of tout1

C14 (in the sense: to peer, look out): related to Old English tӯtan to peep out

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Example Sentences

Stores on every other street corner tout rainbow displays of surgical masks, with a dazzling variety of patterns.

Two years earlier, the commission settled civil fraud charges against an even younger Internet tout.

One is the “economic decoupling” many tout as the way to end any dependency on China and weaken its economy.

From Ozy

The audience--tout Hollywood--stands to cheer his slow and painful trek from the wings to the table.

A liberal group supporting Hillary Clinton tries to tout her pro-middle class bonafides.

But every few years a news article will tout the increased popularity of rabbit as an American dinner item.

Le tout Minsk turns out in protest, catching the authorities by surprise.

That big brain we so tout today was shaped by the mammoths we hunted, by the great cats and bears that sometimes stalked us.

Ils me respondirent que si je la voulois, ils me la donnoyent tout faict.

Ils me donnerent parolle d'ainsy faire le tout; ce neantmoins, le languissant ne nous fut apport que deux jours aprs.

Neantmoins le vieil Membertou, pere du malade, conceut asss l'affaire, et me promit qu'on s'arresteroit tout ce que j'en dirois.

Celuy-cy avoit souvent esvad le danger d'estre noy, et tout fraischement le beau jour de la Pentecoste dernire.

Le lendemain matin, un coup de vent l'emporta tout seul dehors de la chaloupe dans les vagues, et jamais depuis, n'est apparu.

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