Meaning of Shill | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A person paid to endorse a product while pretending to be impartial.
3. Any person enthusiastically endorsing a product; especially, one who is getting paid for the endorsement.
   derogatory
4. 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.
5. A house player in a casino.

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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.”

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