Shill
Definitions
- A surname.
- A person paid to endorse a product while pretending to be impartial.
- Any person enthusiastically endorsing a product; especially, one who is getting paid for the endorsement.
- An accomplice at a confidence trick during an auction or gambling game, such as an accomplice of the seller who bids to drive up the price.
- A house player in a casino.
Equivalents
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Examples
“carnival barkers and their shills, fleecing the rubes”
“You’ve Got Mail is certainly the basic model⟳ for the plot, which finds corporate candy shill Joel ([Paul] Rudd) and indie-sweetshop owner Molly ([Amy] Poehler) regaling their dinner companions with the very long, digressive story of how they met and fell in love⟳.”
“Witnesses have⟳ testified that Jim Jones (like⟳ a few other professional faith-healers) used shills part of the time […]”
“On the screen, there was that quack again, playing the shill for yet another drug company.”
“Sniping is necessary because if you bid before the last⟳ minute it just gives the shills more time to screw you over.”
“The pitchman swept his cane in a slow acceleration over the heads of the crowd and then suddenly pointed the silver cap toward Billy and the shill.”
“When a likely customer walks by, one of the shills says something like⟳, “You've got to play⟳ this game. This idiot is giving away money.””
“There may even be a casino shill sitting adjacent to you. Normally, the casino shills are gorgeous women, and sometimes men, so enjoy⟳ the scenery.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
See also
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