tout
tout Lexical Profile
tout Game Scores & Validity
• verb
To praise, publicize, or promote something or someone extravagantly or persistently.
"The technology company continues to tout its latest software update as a major breakthrough in data security."
To attempt to sell something or solicit custom in a direct, persistent, or importunate manner.
"Street vendors lined the busy harbor boardwalk to tout handmade souvenirs and guided boat tours."
British To resell tickets for a popular event at a price significantly higher than their official face value.
"Strict regulations were introduced to make it illegal to tout Championship final tickets outside the stadium."
• noun
A person who solicits business or employment in a persistent, brazen, or importunate manner.
"Outside the train station, several touts approached the newly arrived tourists to offer discounted hotel rooms and taxi rides."
British A person who buys up tickets for a popular event in order to resell them at a much higher price.
"The concert organizers implemented strict identity checks at the venue entrance to prevent touts from profiting off fans."
A person who obtains and sells information about racehorses and their prospects to bettors.
"The veteran tout spent his early mornings by the track with a stopwatch to gauge the condition of the thoroughbreds."
• Rhymes for tout
Word Origin & Etymology
Derived from Middle English tuten, meaning to peer or look out, from Old English tutian ('to peep out' or 'project'). In the 17th and 18th centuries, it came to describe lookouts for thieves and later horse-racing spies or aggressive street solicitors.