Definitions for touts

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touts tout

Spelling: [tout]

IPA: /taʊt/

Touts is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in touts (osttu).

Definitions for touts

noun

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

verb (used with object)

1. to solicit support for importunately.
2. to describe or advertise boastfully; publicize or promote; praise extravagantly:
3. Horse Racing. to provide information on (a horse) running in a particular race, especially for a fee. to spy on (a horse in training) in order to gain information for the purpose of betting.
4. to watch; spy on.

verb (used without object)

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

Origin of touts

1350-1400; Middle English tuten to look out, peer; probably akin to Old English tōtian to peep out

Examples for touts

"And the jock'll have to stand the shot; I know how it goes," asserted the tout.

They tout engaging plot lines, sharp illustrations and alluring wines that capture immediate attention.

It is the tout ensemble of her presence and her personal charm.

The Zouaves then made a dash for the ravine on the tout Vent front.

"'Major,' tout court, if you please," Mr. Colt corrected him.

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

A tout is guessing all the time, but a hustler is likely to know something.

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

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

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