Crossword clues for touter
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Touter \Tout"er\, n. One who seeks customers, as for an inn, a public conveyance, shops, and the like: hence, an obtrusive candidate for office. [Colloq.]
The prey of ring droppers, . . . duffers, touters, or
any of those bloodless sharpers who are, perhaps,
better known to the police.
--Dickens.
Wiktionary
n. One who seeks customers, as for an inn, a public conveyance, shops, and the like: hence, an obtrusive candidate for office.
WordNet
n. someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way [syn: tout]
Usage examples of "touter".
Sulla in the person of this spouter and touter of the Senatus Consultum Ultimum?
They, an’ all grims an’ signs an’ warnin’s, be all invented by parsons an’ illsome berk-bodies an’ railway touters to skeer an’ scunner hafflin’s, an’ to get folks to do somethin’ that they don’t other incline to.