Shill

Quick meaning: Shill is a noun meaning A person paid to endorse a product while pretending to be impartial.

Meaning

A person paid to endorse a product while pretending to be impartial.

More Meanings

1. (derogatory) Any person enthusiastically endorsing a product; especially, one who is getting paid for the endorsement.
2. An accomplice at a confidence trick during an auction or gambling game, such as an accomplice of the seller who bids to drive up the price.
3. (gambling) A house player in a casino.
4. To put under cover; to sheal.
5. (UK, obsolete, dialect) To shell.
6. (derogatory, intransitive, transitive) To promote or endorse in return for payment, especially dishonestly; sometimes extended sarcastically even to those not paid but strongly biased in favor.

Example Sentences

carnival barkers and their shills, fleecing the rubes

Near-synonyms: inside man, potted plant (contextually synonymous)

On the screen, there was that quack again, playing the shill for yet another drug company.

Sniping is necessary because if you bid before the last minute it just gives the shills more time to screw you over.

Word Forms

• shills
• shilling
• shilled

Synonyms for shill

Depending on context, synonyms include shillaber, shiller, stick.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bob, plant, sharepusher, fictionmonger, henchman, propagandee.

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