tout

verb: 1. to solicit business, employment, votes, support (for), patronage or the like (importunately). 2. to describe or advertise boastfully; publicize or promote; praise extravagantly: a highly touted nightclub. 3. to solicit (business, customers, etc) or hawk (merchandise), esp in a brazen way. 4. (tr) Informal. to recommend flatteringly or excessively. 5. to make much of : promote, talk up: touted as the summer's blockbuster movie; the college's much touted women's studies program. 6. to solicit, peddle, or persuade importunately: not meant to tout you off the movie. — Russell Baker. noun: 1. a person who solicits business, employment, support, or the like, importunately. 2. a person who solicits business in a brazen way. 3. one who solicits patronage. in horse racing: 1. to act as a tout. 2. to provide information on (a horse) running in a particular race, especially for a fee. 3. to spy on (a horse in training) in order to gain information for the purpose of betting. 4. a person who gives information on a horse, especially for a fee. 5. to spy on racehorses being trained in order to obtain information for betting purposes. 6. a person who spies on racehorses so as to obtain betting information to sell. 7. a person who sells information obtained by such spying. 8. to give a tip or solicit bets on (a racehorse). 9. to give a tip or solicit bets on a racehorse. 10. one who gives tips or solicits bets on a racehorse. other: 1. to watch; spy on. 2. to sell, or attempt to sell, such information or to take bets, esp in public places. 3. Ulster. a police informer. of tickets: Also called "ticket tout," a person who sells tickets unofficially for a heavily booked sporting event, concert, etc, at greatly inflated prices. British: 1. a ticket scalper. 2. to spy out information about (a racing stable, a horse, etc.). 3. one who spies out racing information for betting purposes. Chiefly British: 1. a person who spies on a horse in training for the purpose of betting. 2. to spy on racehorses in training to gain information for betting. Examples: Still, Grassley has praised the tax cuts. Republican lawmakers and the Treasury Department have touted the cuts on social media, and the Republican National Committee is expected to do so as well. --Naomi Jagoda, 12.22.19. // The company is running advertisements touting the drug's effectiveness. // The company's stock is being touted by many financial advisers. Related Words: laud, proclaim, praise, publicize, promote, trumpet, plug, acclaim, ballyhoo, tip, herald, push, boost, steer. Synonyms: ballyhoo, blow up, crack up, cry up, glorify, trumpet, tub-thump. Origin: 1350–1400; Middle English tuten to look out, peer; probably akin to Old English tōtian to peep out. C14 (in the sense: to peer, look out): related to Old English tӯtan to peep out. First Known Use: Verb: circa 1700. Noun: 1853. History and Etymology: Verb: Middle English tuten to protrude, peer; probably akin to Old English tōtian to stick out, Norwegian tyte. Source 1, Source 2, Source 3.