TOUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tout mean? 

• TOUT (noun)
  The noun TOUT has 3 senses:

1. someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit

2. someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way

3. one who sells advice about gambling or speculation (especially at the racetrack)

  Familiarity information: TOUT used as a noun is uncommon.

• TOUT (verb)
  The verb TOUT has 2 senses:

1. advertize in strongly positive terms

2. show off

  Familiarity information: TOUT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

ticket tout; tout

Hypernyms ("tout" is a kind of...):

scalper (someone who buys something and resells it at a price far above the initial cost)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

tout; touter

Hypernyms ("tout" is a kind of...):

adman; advertiser; advertizer (someone whose business is advertising)

Derivation:

tout (advertize in strongly positive terms)

Sense 3

Meaning:

One who sells advice about gambling or speculation (especially at the racetrack)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

tipster; tout

Hypernyms ("tout" is a kind of...):

adviser; advisor; consultant (an expert who gives advice)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tout"):

racetrack tout (someone who offers advice about betting on horses (either to influence the odds or in the hope of sharing some of the winnings))

• TOUT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they tout    ... he / she / it touts   
Past simple: touted   
Past participle: touted   
-ing form: touting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Advertize in strongly positive terms

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

This product was touted as a revolutionary invention

Hypernyms (to "tout" is one way to...):

judge; label; pronounce (pronounce judgment on)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something Adjective/Noun

Derivation:

tout; touter (someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Show off

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

blow; bluster; boast; brag; gas; gasconade; shoot a line; swash; tout; vaunt

Hypernyms (to "tout" is one way to...):

amplify; exaggerate; hyperbolise; hyperbolize; magnify; overdraw; overstate (to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "tout"):

puff (speak in a blustering or scornful manner)

crow; gloat; triumph (dwell on with satisfaction)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Somebody ----s to somebody

 Context examples 

And off he went, this trusty tout, without even giving me time to thank him.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

‘So, you’re one of those damned touts!’ cried the lad. ‘I’ll show you how we serve them in King’s Pyland.’

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The health benefits of olives — and associated natural products such as olive oil — have long been recognized and touted by proponents of the Mediterranean diet.

(Health Benefits of Olives and Olive Oil, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The conflicting interests of these touting gentlemen being of a nature to irritate their feelings, personal collisions took place; and the Commons was even scandalized by our principal inveigler (who had formerly been in the wine trade, and afterwards in the sworn brokery line) walking about for some days with a black eye.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)