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verb taʊttaʊt 1with object Attempt to sell (something), typically by a direct or persistent approach. （尤指强行）兜售，兜揽 Sanjay was touting his wares 桑贾伊正在兜售他的货物。 no object shop managers would stand in the street touting for business 商店经理们会站在街上招揽生意。 Example sentencesExamples - Choosing what's right for you can be a difficult task, and almost all sites will tout their wares as the strongest Salvia available.
- Expanding an effort to position Caller ID as family friendly, Sprint this week will break a new TV, print and radio campaign in local markets to tout the service.
- He is steadily getting back on his feet, his demeanour, showing that he is far from being the idle waster, and he is respected, as he respects others, and doesn't actively tout his wares.
- Maybe they should have Gough out on the doorsteps as a pitchman, dodging the election canvassers to personally tout the club's wares.
- Hawkers tout their wares, housewives haggle and workmen of Venice's last working boat yard scrub barnacles from the bottoms of slender craft.
- They don't tout their wares on the internet or at UK property exhibitions.
- A handful of profiteers, cashing in on this occasion to barter superstition, are ready to tout articles relating to funerals.
- See Arnold in a box; see Arnold hefting aluminum tea pots; see Arnold slurping noodles, touting hyper-caffeine energy drinks, flogging beer, see the depths of Arnold.
- We see shoeblacks and lamplighters with their tools and utensils; and milkmaids, fruit sellers and prostitutes touting their wares.
- The reply was to my now standard response to people hawking or touting things, which is ‘No thanks, I'm only interesting in drinking and girls’.
- Gilbert may not be touting the business but if a big European or US bank comes along with an offer, which must be a possibility, then we will find out just exactly what Aberdeen's brand is currently worth.
- Still hundreds of people jammed the officially sanctioned market and dozens of illegal vendors froze outside as they touted vegetables, clothes and hunks of rancid meat.
- It was perhaps elitist to have had low expectations before viewing the film, but one is too wary of packaged presentations from Hollywood touting the wares of the fickle god of consumerism.
- This is only one of hundreds of such devices being touted to the naïve, and selling very well.
- So it's no surprise to see every major player in the market touting special offers.
- Surely, for those who are interested in pornography, the real thing is readily available, and in abundance, along several major streets, where VCD vendors tout their tasteless wares openly for passers-by.
- Nevertheless, marketers are increasingly eager to tout their wares to Broadway's captive audience.
- 1.1 Attempt to persuade people of the merits of.
吹捧，吹嘘 she was touted as a potential Prime Minister 她被吹捧为未来的首相。 Example sentencesExamples - The number of school buildings built, or the number of students enrolled in schools, was often touted as yardsticks of the great progress made in education under the previous New Order regime.
- While he didn't see much of the ball at centre half back this morning, he's been touted as a genuine AFL scholarship prospect, something all of his team-mates dream about.
- Being touted as favourites is always a perilous position to be in as Portlaoise learned to their expense however the baton of favouritism for the showpiece finale has now been passed on to Stradbally.
- In the process, they not only skewered Bath's hopes of avenging last season's Premiership final defeat but also raised question marks over a number of Bath forwards being touted as England starters.
- It says the measures would ensure the pit's viability and help create jobs for 240 miners from the Selby coalfield which is due to close later this year despite being once touted as the industry's future.
- It is being touted as a ‘Channel With a Difference’.
- The island republic of Madagascar, lying some 400 kilometers off the coast of east Africa, is touted as the only African country with a single language.
- ‘The wars we still face’ are chronically touted as imperatives.
- For quite some time now, the tourism sector has been touted as a key component of this country's socio-economic development with great potential to help turn things around.
- The cost of gas, which only a few years ago was being touted as a cheap and reliable source of energy, has already gone through the roof and its price is now the subject of two official investigations into market irregularities.
- The £22 million, 3.8 kilometre by-pass at High and Low Newton, has been touted as a scheme that would save many lives on the notoriously dangerous road.
- As a journalist working in the Zimbabwean tourism industry, I have watched with deepening concern as what was once touted as ‘the industry of the future’ has taken a vertical plunge.
- Since he entered politics, the younger Lee has always been touted as a future Prime Minister, and soon he will get his chance and be able to finally step out of the massive political shadow cast by his father.
- An extra inflow of US $64 billion from the developed world has been touted as the ‘reward’ for following approved policies on governance and economics.
- It is too new and too insular just yet to be touted as having surpassed the personal skill of the candidate, the mainstream media and advertising as the most effective way to reach voters, as some have argued.
- As recently as 1998, having led them to an improbably high 11 th place finish, he was being touted as a long-term contender to replace Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United.
- Being organised by the Apparel Export Promotion Council, in association with the Ministry of Textiles, the fair is being touted as the biggest garment fair of the Indian apparel industry.
- All three have been touted as potential suitors for the Edinburgh-based bank in the past, and may yet be able to persuade their shareholders that it is worth paying a hefty premium for whisking her away from under Halifax's nose.
- Already being touted as the best comic book film ever (until, that is, the next one comes along), it is probably no surprise that the studio bigwigs want to cash in on the expected rewards this flick is sure to reap in.
- The new channel, said to be promoted by film producers and front-ranking artistes, is touted as an answer for video piracy, since it would hold the telecast rights for a certain period of time.
Synonyms commend, endorse, praise, recommend, support, urge, push, speak of, talk of British tip - 1.2British Sell (a ticket) for an event at a price higher than the official one.
〈英〉卖高价票 he made his fortune touting tickets Synonyms peddle, sell, hawk, offer for sale, market, vend promote, talk up, push, flaunt, advertise, publicize, puff, give a puff to informal flog, hype, plug
2North American no object Offer racing tips for a share of any resulting winnings. 〈美〉（为获取一份赢得的钱而）提供赛马内部消息 - 2.1British with object Spy out the movements and condition of (a racehorse in training) in order to gain information to be used when betting.
〈主英〉（为下赌注而）探听（参赛马）的情况
noun taʊttaʊt 1British A person who buys up tickets for an event to resell them at a profit. 〈英〉票贩子 Example sentencesExamples - These raids were made possible by Operation Refresh, which will also be targeting street drinking, begging and ticket touts.
- From what we saw later though the touts must have miscalculated rather badly the on-the-day demand as they found themselves asking not too much of a premium over the ticket price (supply and demand and all that).
- Bad experiences of haggling with illegal touts on the street or in dodgy minicab offices are rooted in people's minds.
- At the entrance, fans without tickets pleaded for spares, but apologetically, lest they be mistaken for touts and beaten to death.
- Music fans have been rocked after hundreds of tickets for this year's V Festival were snapped up by touts trying to make a quick profit.
- Amongst the most cunning of the Irish were Charles Mitchell, from Boston's poor Chelsea suburb, and Mike Meehan, another Bostonian who initially earned his crust as a ticket tout before turning to broking.
- It significantly helped with the touts and didn't cause any significant problems with the queuing.
- That is unless you're prepared to shell out a hefty sum to a ticket tout.
- And the system eliminates touts because the doormen will check, visually rather than by computer, that the barcode message has been sent directly from the ticketing agency.
- Afterwards, Mr Cullen said the award had a special meaning for him as back in the 1940s and 1950s he was a cinema ticket tout, which entitled him to watch free movies, and saw every Grace Kelly film.
- The festival is about charities - very few people make money from it and the touts damage this.
- God forgive me, I should have been out there queueing at 4am, along with the ticket touts and scalpers, and the diehards.
- The US government's only hope is Kevin's identical twin Jake, an ticket tout who is planning to marry his student nurse girlfriend Julie (Washington).
- The residents of 711 flats just don't fill the streets like 38,000 fans plus ticket touts all arriving at once.
- ‘This is no better than the tout on the street selling tickets at inflated prices on the black market,’ he said.
- We bought two tickets from an English tout - at face value because he couldn't get rid of them, and found ourselves neatly positioned near the halfway line, but up amongst the clouds.
- In effect, in a bid to stop the touts, Glastonbury have created a system that punishes individual music fans for finding their plans changing between 9 am on the first Sunday in April and June.
- Although I've travelled a lot without a valid ticket, I've never bought or sold to a ticket tout.
- About 20 pairs had been put up for sale, worth more than £3,500 to the online touts.
- At Tokyo station before Ireland's game with Germany, I saw touts from Liverpool with brick-sized wads of spares engaging with desperate Irish supporters, who were being asked for three times face value.
Synonyms ticket tout, illegal salesman North American informal scalper - 1.1 A person soliciting custom or business, typically in a direct or persistent manner.
（尤指强行）兜售者，兜揽生意者 Example sentencesExamples - There's a good Internet center (opposite the Good Morning Ho Chi Minh City restaurant), an excellent grocery and general store, and street-traders and touts in abundance.
- Tangier is a beautiful city, but in addition to being the ‘gateway to Morocco’ it's also the hot spot for rough trade, touts and general sleaze in all forms, a hangover from its past as an interzone of permissiveness.
- After a bit of staggering between bars and buses, we were missing the attention of the local hasslers, and were plotting on better ways of dealing with touts and hustlers.
- This is the best term to use for touts - street hawkers who approach you at every tourist stop to ask you to buy things.
- The capital, Tripoli, is a pan-African city of Italianate squares and Arab souks where visitors can wander without being hassled by touts or pushy shopkeepers.
- There are no street-children, no touts and no drugs.
- Almost from the moment you step off the plane, you will be accosted by touts, hawkers and rogues.
- Drenched with sweat like nowhere else I've ever been, regularly abandoning planned trips to local museums, we stagger around, too exhausted to even knock back all of the cyclo touts and motorbike taxis.
- They can meet you when you arrive in each area, which makes dealing with the inevitable scrum of touts distinctly less daunting.
- One street trader on Friargate, who wished not to be named, said legitimate traders were being affected by the litter left by touts handing out flyers and ‘chasing’ the public with clipboards.
- If you can handle Delhi's touts, beggars, street-chaos, noise and hard bargaining, then the rest of India will feel like a bit of a walk in the park in comparison.
- Stop to take a photograph of the tombs themselves, the Sphinx or any other of the monuments here, and the touts will swoop down with hands outstretched and pleading expressions.
- Having said that, the Grand Bazaar traders have realised that hard-core hustling is bad for long-term business, and so do not pester shoppers in the way that bazaar touts do in some parts of the Middle East or north Africa.
- Instead of real life's morlock tobacco bootleggers and DVD touts, Pantoland has sweet Aladdie, a boy so poor he does not have a name.
- There are people everywhere: market touts, pilgrims, ascetics draped in beaded necklaces, Sikhs with full beards and curled moustaches, women in red and pink silk with all the grace of Bollywood stars.
- It is difficult for a visitor to walk down the street without attracting the relentless attention of touts and hustlers wanting to sell you something, anything - a bauble, a sob story, a woman.
- I stopped off at Na'ama Bay, the heart of the resort, on the way, and it seemed a nice enough place, with no hassling touts to trap the unwary.
- In two of the cases, the men declared that the tout had entered a public house where they were drinking, had handed them the watches as free gifts and had even treated them to beer as an extra inducement to accept the gift.
- You must get lost like everyone else in the covered bazaar and be picked up by a charming tout who will show you the Bey's bed and the view from the rooftops.
- And while the Taj is a mausoleum, moribund except for the swarms of tourists and touts, the Golden Temple pulses with the energy of a thriving living community - the spiritual and temporal centre of the Sikh faith.
2North American A person who offers racing tips for a share of any resulting winnings. 〈美〉（为获取一份赢得的钱而）提供赛马内部消息 Example sentencesExamples - They're worse than track touts, but certain ideas have crossed my mind.
- A share in the final winnings made the profit for the tout.
- Having inflicted a 15th place Kentucky Derby finisher on Out of Left Field readers, this chastened tout will perform the public service of not tipping any horse in the Preakness.
- After a two-month trial, a former racetrack tout and his former accountant were found guilty of conspiracy to defraud people who invested in a racing syndicate.
- Lagging behind, he bought a $2 tip sheet from a racetrack tout, who told him for five bucks he would ‘mark all the winners.’
3Northern Irish Scottish informal An informer. 〈北爱尔兰，苏格兰，非正式〉告密者；告发者 Example sentencesExamples - But such is the widespread use of touts, some locals are reluctant to contact the Gardai.
- They started calling me a tout (republican slang for an informer) and saying they were going to shoot me.
- We've got some information from touts, but no one knows how much explosive they have.
- I was there when people were re-located out of this country in the name of Ireland as touts or informers.
- For as long as there's been an Irish Republican Army, there have been informers - or touts, to use their description - in its ranks.
- In Dungiven in County Londonderry in the 1970s I was told to respond to a tout who was on the run.
- Three months later, he agreed to become a tout in return for the FBI paying his air fares and expenses in Ireland.
- You know, it's easy for people, oh, he's a tout and informer.
- ‘I went into the castle with Dave Neligan to spot an ex-serviceman who was supposed to be a tout for the British,’ Tim Kennedy recalled.
Derivativesnoun Internet ticket touters attempting to sell Rod Stewart Mission Concert tickets are coming under fire from desperate fans. Example sentencesExamples - Take heed you purveyors of performance, you touters of telematic technology.
- As one of the leading touters of the potential for stem cells, I wanted him to clear up some areas of confusion.
- Sales rooms existed throughout the Gold Coast with touters on virtually every busy pedestrian street luring unsuspecting holidaymakers into the worse nightmare of their lives with all sorts of appealing goodies.
- One subtext to the Post series is that the outrages against propriety and the law committed during the run-up by analysts, stock touters, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs were transparent and egregious.
OriginMiddle English tute 'look out', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch tuit 'spout, nozzle'. Later senses were 'watch, spy on' (late 17th century) and 'solicit custom' (mid 18th century). The noun was first recorded (early 18th century) in the slang use 'thieves' lookout'. The early spelling was tute and the meaning ‘look out’. From a Germanic source, tout is related to Dutch tuit ‘spout, nozzle’ (from the notion of ‘protruding, poking one's head out’). Later senses were ‘watch, spy on’ (late 17th century), and ‘solicit custom’ (mid 18th century). The noun is first recorded in examples from the early 18th century in the slang use ‘thieves' lookout’. Ticket tout is first found in the mid 20th century.
Rhymesabout, bout, clout, devout, doubt, down-and-out, drought, flout, gout, grout, knout, lout, mahout, misdoubt, nowt, out, out-and-out, owt, pout, Prout, right about, rout, scout, shout, snout, spout, sprout, stout, thereabout, thereout, throughout, timeout, trout, way-out, without determinertutaʊttu often le toutUsed before the name of a city to refer to its high society or people of importance. 上层，显要（用于城市名前，指该城的上层社会或重要人物） le tout Washington adored him 华盛顿市的显要们都崇拜他。
OriginFrench, suggested by le tout Paris 'all (of) Paris', used to refer to Parisian high society. verbtouttaʊt 1with object Attempt to sell (something), typically by pestering people in an aggressive or bold manner. （尤指强行）兜售，兜揽 Jim was touting his wares 桑贾伊正在兜售他的货物。 Example sentencesExamples - We see shoeblacks and lamplighters with their tools and utensils; and milkmaids, fruit sellers and prostitutes touting their wares.
- He is steadily getting back on his feet, his demeanour, showing that he is far from being the idle waster, and he is respected, as he respects others, and doesn't actively tout his wares.
- It was perhaps elitist to have had low expectations before viewing the film, but one is too wary of packaged presentations from Hollywood touting the wares of the fickle god of consumerism.
- Hawkers tout their wares, housewives haggle and workmen of Venice's last working boat yard scrub barnacles from the bottoms of slender craft.
- Nevertheless, marketers are increasingly eager to tout their wares to Broadway's captive audience.
- Gilbert may not be touting the business but if a big European or US bank comes along with an offer, which must be a possibility, then we will find out just exactly what Aberdeen's brand is currently worth.
- They don't tout their wares on the internet or at UK property exhibitions.
- A handful of profiteers, cashing in on this occasion to barter superstition, are ready to tout articles relating to funerals.
- The reply was to my now standard response to people hawking or touting things, which is ‘No thanks, I'm only interesting in drinking and girls’.
- This is only one of hundreds of such devices being touted to the naïve, and selling very well.
- Surely, for those who are interested in pornography, the real thing is readily available, and in abundance, along several major streets, where VCD vendors tout their tasteless wares openly for passers-by.
- Choosing what's right for you can be a difficult task, and almost all sites will tout their wares as the strongest Salvia available.
- See Arnold in a box; see Arnold hefting aluminum tea pots; see Arnold slurping noodles, touting hyper-caffeine energy drinks, flogging beer, see the depths of Arnold.
- Expanding an effort to position Caller ID as family friendly, Sprint this week will break a new TV, print and radio campaign in local markets to tout the service.
- Still hundreds of people jammed the officially sanctioned market and dozens of illegal vendors froze outside as they touted vegetables, clothes and hunks of rancid meat.
- So it's no surprise to see every major player in the market touting special offers.
- Maybe they should have Gough out on the doorsteps as a pitchman, dodging the election canvassers to personally tout the club's wares.
- 1.1 Attempt to persuade people of the merits of (someone or something)
吹捧，吹嘘 the headquarters facility was touted as the best in the country Example sentencesExamples - It is too new and too insular just yet to be touted as having surpassed the personal skill of the candidate, the mainstream media and advertising as the most effective way to reach voters, as some have argued.
- Being organised by the Apparel Export Promotion Council, in association with the Ministry of Textiles, the fair is being touted as the biggest garment fair of the Indian apparel industry.
- The island republic of Madagascar, lying some 400 kilometers off the coast of east Africa, is touted as the only African country with a single language.
- All three have been touted as potential suitors for the Edinburgh-based bank in the past, and may yet be able to persuade their shareholders that it is worth paying a hefty premium for whisking her away from under Halifax's nose.
- As recently as 1998, having led them to an improbably high 11 th place finish, he was being touted as a long-term contender to replace Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United.
- In the process, they not only skewered Bath's hopes of avenging last season's Premiership final defeat but also raised question marks over a number of Bath forwards being touted as England starters.
- The new channel, said to be promoted by film producers and front-ranking artistes, is touted as an answer for video piracy, since it would hold the telecast rights for a certain period of time.
- As a journalist working in the Zimbabwean tourism industry, I have watched with deepening concern as what was once touted as ‘the industry of the future’ has taken a vertical plunge.
- The £22 million, 3.8 kilometre by-pass at High and Low Newton, has been touted as a scheme that would save many lives on the notoriously dangerous road.
- Since he entered politics, the younger Lee has always been touted as a future Prime Minister, and soon he will get his chance and be able to finally step out of the massive political shadow cast by his father.
- It says the measures would ensure the pit's viability and help create jobs for 240 miners from the Selby coalfield which is due to close later this year despite being once touted as the industry's future.
- For quite some time now, the tourism sector has been touted as a key component of this country's socio-economic development with great potential to help turn things around.
- It is being touted as a ‘Channel With a Difference’.
- ‘The wars we still face’ are chronically touted as imperatives.
- Already being touted as the best comic book film ever (until, that is, the next one comes along), it is probably no surprise that the studio bigwigs want to cash in on the expected rewards this flick is sure to reap in.
- An extra inflow of US $64 billion from the developed world has been touted as the ‘reward’ for following approved policies on governance and economics.
- The number of school buildings built, or the number of students enrolled in schools, was often touted as yardsticks of the great progress made in education under the previous New Order regime.
- While he didn't see much of the ball at centre half back this morning, he's been touted as a genuine AFL scholarship prospect, something all of his team-mates dream about.
- Being touted as favourites is always a perilous position to be in as Portlaoise learned to their expense however the baton of favouritism for the showpiece finale has now been passed on to Stradbally.
- The cost of gas, which only a few years ago was being touted as a cheap and reliable source of energy, has already gone through the roof and its price is now the subject of two official investigations into market irregularities.
Synonyms commend, endorse, praise, recommend, support, urge, push, speak of, talk of - 1.2British Scalp (a ticket).
Synonyms peddle, sell, hawk, offer for sale, market, vend
2North American no object Offer racing tips for a share of any resulting winnings. 〈美〉（为获取一份赢得的钱而）提供赛马内部消息 - 2.1British with object Spy out the movements and condition of (a racehorse in training) in order to gain information to be used when betting.
〈主英〉（为下赌注而）探听（参赛马）的情况
nountouttaʊt 1A person soliciting custom or business, typically in an aggressive or bold manner. （尤指强行）兜售者，兜揽生意者 Example sentencesExamples - After a bit of staggering between bars and buses, we were missing the attention of the local hasslers, and were plotting on better ways of dealing with touts and hustlers.
- One street trader on Friargate, who wished not to be named, said legitimate traders were being affected by the litter left by touts handing out flyers and ‘chasing’ the public with clipboards.
- If you can handle Delhi's touts, beggars, street-chaos, noise and hard bargaining, then the rest of India will feel like a bit of a walk in the park in comparison.
- In two of the cases, the men declared that the tout had entered a public house where they were drinking, had handed them the watches as free gifts and had even treated them to beer as an extra inducement to accept the gift.
- Stop to take a photograph of the tombs themselves, the Sphinx or any other of the monuments here, and the touts will swoop down with hands outstretched and pleading expressions.
- It is difficult for a visitor to walk down the street without attracting the relentless attention of touts and hustlers wanting to sell you something, anything - a bauble, a sob story, a woman.
- Almost from the moment you step off the plane, you will be accosted by touts, hawkers and rogues.
- I stopped off at Na'ama Bay, the heart of the resort, on the way, and it seemed a nice enough place, with no hassling touts to trap the unwary.
- Instead of real life's morlock tobacco bootleggers and DVD touts, Pantoland has sweet Aladdie, a boy so poor he does not have a name.
- There's a good Internet center (opposite the Good Morning Ho Chi Minh City restaurant), an excellent grocery and general store, and street-traders and touts in abundance.
- There are no street-children, no touts and no drugs.
- There are people everywhere: market touts, pilgrims, ascetics draped in beaded necklaces, Sikhs with full beards and curled moustaches, women in red and pink silk with all the grace of Bollywood stars.
- You must get lost like everyone else in the covered bazaar and be picked up by a charming tout who will show you the Bey's bed and the view from the rooftops.
- They can meet you when you arrive in each area, which makes dealing with the inevitable scrum of touts distinctly less daunting.
- And while the Taj is a mausoleum, moribund except for the swarms of tourists and touts, the Golden Temple pulses with the energy of a thriving living community - the spiritual and temporal centre of the Sikh faith.
- Having said that, the Grand Bazaar traders have realised that hard-core hustling is bad for long-term business, and so do not pester shoppers in the way that bazaar touts do in some parts of the Middle East or north Africa.
- The capital, Tripoli, is a pan-African city of Italianate squares and Arab souks where visitors can wander without being hassled by touts or pushy shopkeepers.
- This is the best term to use for touts - street hawkers who approach you at every tourist stop to ask you to buy things.
- Tangier is a beautiful city, but in addition to being the ‘gateway to Morocco’ it's also the hot spot for rough trade, touts and general sleaze in all forms, a hangover from its past as an interzone of permissiveness.
- Drenched with sweat like nowhere else I've ever been, regularly abandoning planned trips to local museums, we stagger around, too exhausted to even knock back all of the cyclo touts and motorbike taxis.
- 1.1British A person who buys tickets for an event to resell them at a profit; a scalper.
〈英〉票贩子 Example sentencesExamples - And the system eliminates touts because the doormen will check, visually rather than by computer, that the barcode message has been sent directly from the ticketing agency.
- From what we saw later though the touts must have miscalculated rather badly the on-the-day demand as they found themselves asking not too much of a premium over the ticket price (supply and demand and all that).
- Bad experiences of haggling with illegal touts on the street or in dodgy minicab offices are rooted in people's minds.
- At the entrance, fans without tickets pleaded for spares, but apologetically, lest they be mistaken for touts and beaten to death.
- Amongst the most cunning of the Irish were Charles Mitchell, from Boston's poor Chelsea suburb, and Mike Meehan, another Bostonian who initially earned his crust as a ticket tout before turning to broking.
- The US government's only hope is Kevin's identical twin Jake, an ticket tout who is planning to marry his student nurse girlfriend Julie (Washington).
- God forgive me, I should have been out there queueing at 4am, along with the ticket touts and scalpers, and the diehards.
- Afterwards, Mr Cullen said the award had a special meaning for him as back in the 1940s and 1950s he was a cinema ticket tout, which entitled him to watch free movies, and saw every Grace Kelly film.
- ‘This is no better than the tout on the street selling tickets at inflated prices on the black market,’ he said.
- That is unless you're prepared to shell out a hefty sum to a ticket tout.
- These raids were made possible by Operation Refresh, which will also be targeting street drinking, begging and ticket touts.
- The residents of 711 flats just don't fill the streets like 38,000 fans plus ticket touts all arriving at once.
- It significantly helped with the touts and didn't cause any significant problems with the queuing.
- About 20 pairs had been put up for sale, worth more than £3,500 to the online touts.
- The festival is about charities - very few people make money from it and the touts damage this.
- We bought two tickets from an English tout - at face value because he couldn't get rid of them, and found ourselves neatly positioned near the halfway line, but up amongst the clouds.
- In effect, in a bid to stop the touts, Glastonbury have created a system that punishes individual music fans for finding their plans changing between 9 am on the first Sunday in April and June.
- Music fans have been rocked after hundreds of tickets for this year's V Festival were snapped up by touts trying to make a quick profit.
- At Tokyo station before Ireland's game with Germany, I saw touts from Liverpool with brick-sized wads of spares engaging with desperate Irish supporters, who were being asked for three times face value.
- Although I've travelled a lot without a valid ticket, I've never bought or sold to a ticket tout.
Synonyms ticket tout, illegal salesman
2North American A person who offers racing tips for a share of any resulting winnings. 〈美〉（为获取一份赢得的钱而）提供赛马内部消息 Example sentencesExamples - After a two-month trial, a former racetrack tout and his former accountant were found guilty of conspiracy to defraud people who invested in a racing syndicate.
- Having inflicted a 15th place Kentucky Derby finisher on Out of Left Field readers, this chastened tout will perform the public service of not tipping any horse in the Preakness.
- Lagging behind, he bought a $2 tip sheet from a racetrack tout, who told him for five bucks he would ‘mark all the winners.’
- They're worse than track touts, but certain ideas have crossed my mind.
- A share in the final winnings made the profit for the tout.
3Scottish Northern Irish informal An informer. 〈北爱尔兰，苏格兰，非正式〉告密者；告发者 Example sentencesExamples - ‘I went into the castle with Dave Neligan to spot an ex-serviceman who was supposed to be a tout for the British,’ Tim Kennedy recalled.
- Three months later, he agreed to become a tout in return for the FBI paying his air fares and expenses in Ireland.
- You know, it's easy for people, oh, he's a tout and informer.
- I was there when people were re-located out of this country in the name of Ireland as touts or informers.
- For as long as there's been an Irish Republican Army, there have been informers - or touts, to use their description - in its ranks.
- They started calling me a tout (republican slang for an informer) and saying they were going to shoot me.
- But such is the widespread use of touts, some locals are reluctant to contact the Gardai.
- We've got some information from touts, but no one knows how much explosive they have.
- In Dungiven in County Londonderry in the 1970s I was told to respond to a tout who was on the run.
OriginMiddle English tute ‘look out’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch tuit ‘spout, nozzle’. Later senses were ‘watch, spy on’ (late 17th century) and ‘solicit custom’ (mid 18th century). The noun was first recorded (early 18th century) in the slang use ‘thieves' lookout’. determinerto͞otu often le toutUsed before the name of a city to refer to its high society or people of importance. 上层，显要（用于城市名前，指该城的上层社会或重要人物） le tout Washington adored him 华盛顿市的显要们都崇拜他。
OriginFrench, suggested by le tout Paris ‘all (of) Paris’, used to refer to Parisian high society. |