Definitions for Tout
taʊttout

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. tout, ticket toutnoun

   someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit

2. tout, touternoun

   someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way

3. tipster, toutverb

   one who sells advice about gambling or speculation (especially at the racetrack)

4. toutverb

   advertize in strongly positive terms

   "This product was touted as a revolutionary invention"

5. boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconadeverb

   show off

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. toutnoun

   Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.

2. toutnoun

   A person, at a racecourse, who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win

3. toutverb

   To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag; to promote.

   They are touting their PowerSpheres, but I don't know how well those really work.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Tout

   A tout is any person who solicits business or employment in a persistent and annoying manner (generally equivalent to a solicitor or barker in American English, or a spruiker in Australian English). An example would be a person who frequents heavily touristed areas and presents himself as a tour guide (particularly towards those who do not speak the local language) but operates on behalf of local bars, restaurant, or hotels, being paid to direct tourists towards certain establishments.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. tout

   Tout is a verb that means to publicly praise or promote enthusiastically and excessively. It can also mean to solicit or attempt to sell something by persistently pestering people. As a noun, 'tout' refers to a person who habitually attempts to sell or promote something.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Toutverb

   to act as a tout. See 2d Tout

2. Toutverb

   to ply or seek for customers

3. Toutnoun

   one who secretly watches race horses which are in course of training, to get information about their capabilities, for use in betting

4. Toutverb

   to toot a horn

5. Toutnoun

   the anus

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Tout

   In British English, a tout is any person who solicits business or employment in a persistent and annoying manner. According to the American Bar Association, touting occurs when a person advertises, promotes, or otherwise describes a security for sale without disclosing that the person is being paid to do so. An example would be a person who frequents heavily touristed areas and presents himself as a tour guide but operates on behalf of local bars, restaurant, or hotels, being paid to direct tourists towards certain establishments.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Tout

   towt, v.i. to look out for custom in an obtrusive way.—n. one who does so: a low fellow who hangs about racing-stables, &c., to pick up profitable information.—n. Tout′er, one who touts. [A.S. tótian, to look out.]

2. Tout

   towt, v.i. (Scot.) to pout.—n. a pet, a fit of the sulks, a sudden illness.—adj. Tout′ie, petulant.

CrunchBaseRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Tout

   Headquartered in San Francisco, Tout is a groundbreaking social media platform that combines social networking with the power of video to deliver a revolutionary, conversational experience for users, celebrities and brands. With Tout, users shoot 15-second video status updates via smartphones and webcams, then share their "Touts" real-time and automatically to Tout.com, Twitter, Facebook, SMS and email contacts. Through Tout's reply feature, users can engage in Tout conversations, and with the Tout widget and API, partners can customize the full Tout experience for their own site or app. Tout is a technology spin-out of SRI (Stanford Research Institute). Check us out at www.tout.com, or follow us on Facebook and on Twitter @Tout.In TechCrunch Anthony Ha wrote that as of March 2012, “12 million people have visited Tout since it launched, including 3.7 million in the last 30 days. Seventy-five million Touts have been shared overall.”

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. TOUT

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Tout is ranked #45189 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Tout surname appeared 474 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Tout.
   
   89% or 422 total occurrences were White.
   5.9% or 28 total occurrences were Asian.
   1.6% or 8 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1.2% or 6 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

Matched Categories

1. • Advertiser
   • Exaggerate
   • Label
   • Scalper

How to pronounce Tout?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Tout in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Tout in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Tout in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Tout in a Sentence

1. John Churton Collins:

   To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.

2. Bernie Sanders:

   News outlets owned by Disney and Jeff Bezos may happily tout Disney films and Bezos's plans for space exploration, but we cannot count on them to consistently and aggressively cover workers' fight for better wages at Disney- or Bezos-controlled companies.

3. Terry Madonna:

   Despite the controversy, if you take a look at the polls, she still has remarkably high favorables among Democratic voters, i think honestly, the best [O’Malley] can do is not so much tout his own record as governor, but point out the shortcomings of Hillary and hope that sticks.

4. Don Bacon:

   They’re better than us at the carrot and the stick. If they get in line, they get the carrot. If they don’t, they get the stick. They all tout the unity thing. Maybe that’s one of our weaknesses.

5. Charles de LEUSSE:

   Everyone can get the gold of the Sun. (Tout le monde cueille l'or du soleil)

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Tout
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Tout
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tout
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Tout
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Tout
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Tout
8. ^ CrunchBase
   https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tout
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html