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tout

 
Noun tout has 3 senses
  1. tout, ticket tout - someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit
    --1 is a kind of scalper
  2. tout, touter - someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way
    --2 is a kind of advertiser, advertizer, adman
    Derived form: verb tout1
  3. tipster, tout - one who sells advice about gambling or speculation (especially at the racetrack)
    --3 is a kind of adviser, advisor, consultant
    --3 has particulars: racetrack tout
Verb tout has 2 senses
  1. tout - advertize in strongly positive terms; "This product was touted as a revolutionary invention"
    --1 is one way to
    pronounce, label, judge
    Derived forms: noun tout2, noun touter1
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s something Adjective/Noun
  2. boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade - show off
    --2 is one way to overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyerbolise, magnify, amplify
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s PP
    Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
    Somebody ----s to somebody
tourt tourtoring tousel touseled toushay tousle tousled tout tout tout court tout ensemble toutd touted toutefois touten touter toutes

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