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Definition of shills in English Turkish dictionary
- shill
- argo sokak satıcısının veya kumarbazın müşteri çekmek için yanında bulundurduğu işlerini kızıştıran kimse
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Definition of shills in English English dictionary
- plural of shill
- Third person singular simple present of to shill
- shill
- To promote or endorse in return for payment, especially dishonestly
Today there are even commercials in which real scientists, some of considerable distinction, shill for corporations. They teach that scientists too will lie for money. As Tom Paine warned, inuring us to lies lays the groundwork for many other evils.
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- To put under cover; to sheal
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- A person paid to endorse a product favourably, while pretending to be impartial
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- An accomplice at a confidence trick during an auction or gambling game
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- A person employed by or representing an unscrupulous auctioneer or owner of the items being offered at public auction, and who creates artificially higher prices for lots sold at public sales
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- a decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to stimulate the participation of others act as a shill; "The shill bid for the expensive carpet during the auction in order to drive the price up
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- {f} act as a shill, work as a shill, act as a decoy, pose as a customer in order to lure other customers (in gambling houses, games of chance, etc.)
- shill
- a decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to stimulate the participation of others
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- {i} decoy, one who poses as a customer in order to lure other customers (in gambling houses, games of chance, etc.)
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- (noun) Term for a biased fan, or employee of a wrestling company, who's inabilityto criticize or disagree with anything that person's favourite promotion does ultimately negatestheir credibility
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- A shill is similar to a proposition player, except a shill gambles with the cardroom's money instead of his/her own
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- To promote as a fan or customer
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- act as a shill; "The shill bid for the expensive carpet during the auction in order to drive the price up"
- shill
- To shell