Shill

in #definition7 years ago

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/shill

Shill
NOUN

  1. An accomplice of a confidence trickster or swindler who poses as a genuine customer to entice or encourage others.
    ‘I used to be a shill in a Reno gambling club’
    figurative ‘the agency is a shill for the nuclear power industry’
    More example sentences
    1.1 A person who pretends to give an impartial endorsement of something in which they themselves have an interest.
    ‘a megamillionaire who makes more money as a shill for corporate products than he does for playing basketball’

VERB

Act or work as a shill.
‘your husband in the crowd could shill for you’

Shills everywhere, CARE! people.

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