{i} one who aggressively solicits business; one who scouts race horses in training in order to gain information to aid betting (British); ticket scalper, one who sells tickets for a price higher than face value (British)
A tout is someone who sells things such as tickets unofficially, usually at prices which are higher than the official ones. ticket tout someone who buys tickets for a concert, sports match etc and sells them at a higher price, usually on the street near a sports ground, theatre etc American Equivalent: scalper
If someone touts tickets, they sell them outside a sports ground or theatre, usually for more than their original value. a man who made his money touting tickets
(pronounce towt) To ply or seek for customers A touter is one who touts (From Tooting, where persons on their way to the court held at Epsom were pestered by touts A century or two ago, when the court took up Its quarters at Epsom [many of] the inhabitants used to station themselves at the point where the roads fork off the Epsom by Tooting and Merton, and `tout' the travellers to pass through Tooting It become a common expression for carriage-folk to say, `The Toots are on its again ' - Walford: Greater London, vol ii p 530
disapproval If someone touts something, they try to sell it or convince people that it is good. It has the trappings of an election campaign in the United States, with slick television ads touting the candidates
someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit advertize in strongly positive terms; "This product was touted as a revolutionary invention