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touting

/tout/US // taʊt //UK // (taʊt) //

兜售,吹捧,兜兜转转,兜揽生意

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to solicit business, employment, votes, or the like, importunately.
    • : Horse Racing. to act as a tout.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to solicit support for importunately.
    • : to describe or advertise boastfully; publicize or promote; praise extravagantly: a highly touted nightclub.
    • : Horse Racing. to provide information on running in a particular race, especially for a fee.to spy on in order to gain information for the purpose of betting.
    • : to watch; spy on.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who solicits business, employment, support, or the like, importunately.
    • : Horse Racing. a person who gives information on a horse, especially for a fee.Chiefly British.a person who spies on a horse in training for the purpose of betting.
    • : British. a ticket scalper.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • For weeks leading up to the election, Hagan ran television commercials touting her opposition to “amnesty” for “illegal aliens.”

  • The pro-gun advocacy group is putting out online ads in Arkansas touting its support of Rep. Tom Cotton, the GOP Senate candidate.

  • If there is one precious commodity for America, it is our touting of the First Amendment.

  • In 2008, McConnell ran ads touting the billions of dollars of pork he had brought home to Kentucky over the years.

  • Science shows the low-fat diet to be BS, and yet the American Heart Association keeps touting it as the ‘heart healthy’ choice.

  • I never had the least doubt that the shabby man who stood touting for custom outside that caravan was Cyrus Verd.

  • Means I'm rich, that I can have my own ponies if I want to, 'stead of touting somebody else's old dogs.

  • Besant supposes that Tothill Street took its name from watermen touting there for fares.

  • Under the impression that Jeckie had come touting for custom, he received her grumpishly, and eyed her with anything but favour.

  • Occasionally, I suffered a little from their pouting and touting; but, in the main, I was happy enough between them.