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Touting

Tout \Tout\ (tout; t[=oo]t; Scot. & dial. t[=oo]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Touted; p. pr. & vb. n. Touting.]

  1. To look narrowly; spy. [Scot. & Dial. Eng.]

  2. (Horse Racing)

    1. To spy out the movements of race horses at their trials, or to get by stealth or other improper means the secrets of the stable, for betting purposes.

    2. To act as a tout; to tout, or give a tip on, a race horse. [Cant, U. S.]

Wiktionary
touting

n. The act of one who touts. vb. (present participle of tout English)

Usage examples of "touting".

Wall Street and the company that had developed Reskin would have had commercials touting it running every fifteen minutes on every television station.

Tartars selling shashlik competed volubly with two Chinese touting illegal hooch in tin bottles.

Every potential client had received a professionally done packet touting the exploits of the newest King of Torts.

Inside the store, he was checking out a new spool of barbed wire the clerk was touting to be the best on the market when he happened to glance out the front window just as the Reisner wagon passed by.

House and spend the rest of their days touting for juicy criminal lawsuits that benefit them but not Rome.

Note there are no therapists touting the reality of needles in cans and urging their patients, subtly or directly, to go public with the news.

You've read the SGJ literature touting botaan adaptogen that can cure everything but a rainy day in most humanoid phenotypes.

You’ve read the SGJ literature touting bota—an adaptogen that can cure everything but a rainy day in most humanoid phenotypes.

Now Amador was one of the stars of Grange's Christian pilgrim tour, touting himself as a carpenter ("just like Jesus!

So, with a sense of high expectation, I follow the pointing finger in the sky and look down on my parents' neighbourhood, upon bicycles, upon street‑vendors touting roasted gram in twists of paper, upon the hip‑jutting, hand‑holding street loafers, upon flying scraps of paper and little clustered whirlwinds of flies around the sweetmeat stalls… all of it foreshortened by my high‑in‑the‑sky point of view.

Magicians, acrobats, and charlatans vied for loose change alongside book stalls touting religious tomes and honor plays.

I am not good at shopping or parting with large sums of money at the best of times, and the prospect of trailing around a succession of shops listening to sales assistants touting the wonders of various office products filled me with foreboding.

Here are the big strip clubs with their hucksters and roustabouts outside, bars flashing neon and touting endless drink specials, a few famous restaurants and a slew of pretenders.

In fact, the “bloodbath” school of criminology was touting exactly the opposite theory—that an increase in the teenage share of the population would produce a crop of superpredators who would lay the nation low.

I saw an ad with you touting the virtues of a new line of tennis shoes.