What does shill mean?
Shill means A person paid to endorse a product while pretending to be impartial..
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/ʃɪl/ · noun
A person paid to endorse a product while pretending to be impartial..
carnival barkers and their shills, fleecing the rubes
Witnesses have testified that Jim Jones (like a few other professional faith-healers) used shills part of the time […]
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.
On the screen, there was that quack again, playing the shill for yet another drug company.
Meanwhile, an influence operation by Iranian shill accounts began amplifying commentary critical of the war almost immediately after the first US strikes on Iran.
Near-synonyms: inside man, potted plant (contextually synonymous)
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.
Use shill when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Shill means A person paid to endorse a product while pretending to be impartial..
Common synonyms include shillaber, shiller, inside man, potted plant.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
carnival barkers and their shills, fleecing the rubes
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