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.
Advertisement
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.
- The definition of the word shill is someone being paid.
- There was no 'shilling sign' and shilling was abbreviated as s.
- I used the word shill in reference to the checkered career of S.
- His current mission, as ranking shill, is to 3-card-Monty the herd.
- Post have so much more merit when they don't use the term shill or phrase: partisan hack.
- Don't take offense to that comment, I have just always wanted to use the word shill in a sentance.
- They love to see me characterized as a shill and a geeky sportswriter who was always picked last in pickup games.
- I used the word shill as a hat tip to said Mr Singer’s habit of taking money from the industries he is paid to cover for.
- This kind of leadership is dangerous and has one and only one description - facism Report Abuse Darryl "BOOM BOOM" Issa is a long term shill for corporate interests.
- Watch Senator Al "Kick-Ass" Franken wipe up the floor with this health-care-lobby shill from the Hudson Institute who claimed that universal healthcare would increase medical bankruptcies.
- The idea that the White House might try to infiltrate the press corps with a shill is a chilling thought in this democracy, but this is the administration that has been caught paying “journalists” and generating its own prefabricated “news reports” to distribute to TV stations too naïve to recognize the attempt at propaganda.