Tout

Pronunciation

• IPA: /taÊŠt/
• Rhymes: -aÊŠt

Noun

1. Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.
2. A person, at a racecourse, who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win.
• 1905, w, w:The Case of Miss Elliott Chapter 2, No one, however, would have anything to do with him, as Mr. Keeson's orders in those respects were very strict ; he had often threatened any one of his employés with instant dismissal if he found him in company with one of these touts.

Synonyms

• barker
• pitchman
• spruiker

Derived terms

• ticket tout

Full definition of tout

Verb

1. (transitive) To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag; to promote.They are touting their PowerSpheres, but I don't know how well those really work.
• 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Gameshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/For the 75 years since a district rebellion was put down, The Games have existed as an assertion of the Capital’s power, a winner-take-all contest that touts heroism and sacrifice—participants are called “tributes”— while pitting the districts against each other.
2. To look upon or watch.
• 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, X, lvi:Nor durst Orcanes view the Soldan's face,
• But still upon the floor did pore and tout.

Synonyms

• pimp
• pitch
• promote
• spruik