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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. One who poses as a satisfied customer or an enthusiastic gambler to dupe bystanders into participating in a swindle.
  2. v. To act as a shill.
  3. v. To act as a shill for (a deceitful enterprise).
  4. v. To lure (a person) into a swindle.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. A variant of sheal.
  2. To sound; shrill.
  3. Shrill.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A person paid to endorse a product favourably, while pretending to be impartial.
  2. n. An accomplice at a confidence trick during an auction or gambling game.
  3. v. pejorative To promote or endorse in return for payment, especially dishonestly.
  4. v. To put under cover; to sheal.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. Obs. or Prov. Eng. To shell.
  2. v. Prov.ng. To put under cover; to sheal.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. act as a shill
  2. n. a decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to stimulate the participation of others

Etymologies

  1. Unknown; attested as verb 1914, as noun 1916. Perhaps an abbreviation of shillaber, attested 1913. The word entered English via carny, originally denoting a carnival worker who pretends to be a member of the audience in an attempt to elicit interest in an attraction. (Wiktionary)
  2. Perhaps short for shillaber. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. shell
  1. sheal

hypernyms (6)

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  1. deceive
  1. cozen
  1. delude
  1. lead on
  1. decoy
  1. steerer

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  2. shills
  3. rix
  4. youl
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  2. 100-101
  3. 27.html
  4. buitenlandse
  1. sorrowfully
  2. gridlock
  3. hairbreadth
  4. fixed-price
  1. fustest
  2. Masters
  3. dataon
  4. theyare
  1. zonder
  2. xo
  3. bout
  4. riber

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  1. Bastille
  2. Belleville
  3. Bill
  4. Brazil
  5. Brill
  6. Gil
  7. Gill
  8. Hill
  9. Jill
  10. Lil
  11. Lille
  12. Mill
  13. Mille
  14. Phil
  15. Seville
  16. Sill
  1. Still
  2. Tamil
  3. Will
  4. bastille
  5. bil
  6. bill
  7. brazil
  8. brill
  9. chill
  10. dill
  11. distil
  12. distill
  13. downhill
  14. drill
  15. fil
  16. fill
  1. fril
  2. frill
  3. fulfill
  4. gill
  5. goodwill
  6. grill
  7. grille
  8. hill
  9. il
  10. ill
  11. instill
  12. jill
  13. kill
  14. knill
  15. krill
  16. lil
  1. lill
  2. mil
  3. mill
  4. nil
  5. nill
  6. overbill
  7. phil
  8. pil
  9. pill
  10. prill
  11. quill
  12. refill
  13. rill
  14. shrill
  15. sil
  16. sill
  1. skill
  2. spill
  3. stil
  4. still
  5. swill
  6. thill
  7. thrill
  8. til
  9. till
  10. trill
  11. twill
  12. until
  13. uphill
  14. wil
  15. will
  16. zill

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  • Noelle Knight "'I've never been a bouncer before,' Charles said conversationally. 'I was the youngest son of a minor baronet, so I've had to make my own way, and I've done many things. I've worked as a bartender before, and many years ago I was a shill for a whorehouse. Stood outside, trumpeted the wares of the strumpets--that's a neat phrase, isn't it?--threw out men who got too rough with the whores. I suppose that's the same as being a bouncer."-Dead as a Doornail, by Charlaine Harris May 18, 2011

  • bilby "Rosa Luxemburg sez: “The first revolutionary act is to call things by their true names.�? Well then, here goes: Whether we—or Lord Obama—choose to admit it or not, the vaunted “American way of life�? was built on a nearly exterminated indigenous population, the African slave trade, and all those killed in places like Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Southeast Asia, Central America, the Middle East, etc. It was built on stolen land using stolen oil. Our way of life was built on terror and it is maintained by terror: e.g. cops, prisons, military, and the psychological oppression of propaganda.
    The exalted Pope of Hope is merely shilling old Kool-Aid in shiny new recyclable bottles. Until we act, we remain accomplices to his global and domestic crimes."
    - Mickey Z., 'Obama Nation Upholds US Terror', 15 Jan 2009, foreignpolicyjournal.com. Jan 20, 2009

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