shill

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You may also need to know what a "shill" actually is: on 04 / 03 / 2009, -4 / +2Actually, man with fat mother, I do know what a shill is and maybe if you apply the definition to the situation, you'll see what I mean by it.

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  1. noun One who poses as a satisfied customer or an enthusiastic gambler to dupe bystanders into participating in a swindle.
  2. intransitive verb To act as a shill.
  3. transitive verb To act as a shill for (a deceitful enterprise).
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  • Google as a government shill, they turned the name of Google's accuser, Gao Ye, into —  InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs
  • You may also need to know what a "shill" actually is: on 04 / 03 / 2009, -4 / +2Actually, man with fat mother, I do know what a shill is and maybe if you apply the definition to the situation, you'll see what I mean by it. —  digg.com: Stories / Popular
  • You can tell it's an industry shill -- a "greenwash" -- because nowhere on this "nonprofit" site does it ask for contributions or even accept them. —  Consumer Watchdog Updates
  • She seemed like a soulless republican shill, and all she was doing was fellating McCain. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
  • It's a myth and should leave the person saying it called out as a shill, not making a judge feeling demoralized, threatened. —  The NarcoSphere -
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Perhaps short for shillaber.

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  1. Middle English schillen, skillen = Old High German sccllan, scellen, skellen, schellen, Middle High German schellen = Icelandic skella, skjalla = Gothic (Moesogothic) * skillan (not recorded) (cf. Italian squillare, from Old High German), sound loud and clear, ring. Hence the adjective shill, and the noun, Old High German scal, Middle High German schal, German schall, sound, tone (whence the secondary verb, Middle High German G. schallen, sound, resound), and prob. also ult. English shilling.
  2. Middle English shill, schille, schylle, from Anglo-Saxon scyll = Middle Dutch schel = Middle High German schel, sounding loud and clear, shrill: see shill, v.
 

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