shill
IPA: ʃˈɪɫ
noun
- A person paid to endorse a product while pretending to be impartial.
- (derogatory) Any person paid to endorse a product.
- An accomplice at a confidence trick during an auction or gambling game.
- (gambling) A house player in a casino.
- A surname.
verb
- (derogatory) To promote or endorse in return for payment, especially dishonestly.
- To put under cover; to sheal.
- (UK, obsolete, dialect) To shell.
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Examples of "shill" in Sentences
- It seems like a bit of shilling.
- Now you are shilling onWikipedia.
- It was a waste of a good shilling.
- A sneak, yes, but a shill, not yet.
- Tsarion is a shill and a sheepherder.
- It was priced ten and a half shilling.
- In 1877 a penny of shilling denomination.
- Either that, or you're shilling for Evony.
- A duty of a shilling was placed on advertisements.
- There was no 'shilling sign' and shilling was abbreviated as s.
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