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shill

/shil/US // ʃɪl //UK // (ʃɪl) //

骗子,推销员,骗子公司,托儿

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who poses as a customer in order to decoy others into participating, as at a gambling house, auction, confidence game, etc.
    • : a person who publicizes or praises something or someone for reasons of self-interest, personal profit, or friendship or loyalty.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to work as a shill: He shills for a large casino.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to advertise or promote as or in the manner of a huckster; hustle: He was hired to shill a new TV show.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Beyond that, there’s more minor threats such as “Oh, I’ll report you” or “Oh, soon you will be revealed and exposed as a shill.”

  • He became as polarizing a figure as the war itself, court jester to Nixon and corporate shill to boot.

  • Professional bloggers essentially get paid to shill the clothes they like and travel the world—to be influencers.

  • He is also quite happy to shill for garcinia cambogia, which he calls the “newest, fastest fat-buster.”

  • Yet his sincerity leads him to channel Kremlin propaganda as effectively as any paid shill.

  • Haaretz, no Netanyahu shill, recently publicized a poll reflecting the Israeli consensus belief in a two-state solution.

  • As Tom Scales led the horse away to the stables it turned its head towards its master with a short, shill neigh.

  • He's a cowardly scoundrel, but he shill hev far play, or my name ain't Jake Larkin!'

  • He's a-driftin' out'n de riber, ole Mist; shill I run and tell his folks when I puts der biscuits in de oben?

  • “Ye shill hab it, honey,” said the woman, giving him some from a bucket she had set on the ground.

  • And six makes twenty-eight pounds, four shill——What do you want in here?