Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who goes about soliciting custom, as for an inn, a public conveyance, or a shop.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun colloq. One who seeks customers, as for an inn, a public conveyance, shops, and the like: hence, an obtrusive candidate for office.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who seeks customers, as for an inn, a public conveyance, shops, and the like: hence, an obtrusive candidate for office.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way
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Examples
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The hardware-man looks as if he might be 'touter' to a broken-down brigand.
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To-day he says that an emigration 'touter' has promised him gold and green forests if he will take a ticket for one of the Bremen line steamers.
From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People Sven Anders Hedin 1908
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Back in January, the touter of all things truthy declared Domino's Pizza his "Alpha Dog of The Week" for a "game-changing ad campaign" to promote its new pizza recipe.
Kerry Trueman: Domino's Pizza and the USDA: The Bailout You Didn't Hear About Kerry Trueman 2010
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Back in January, the touter of all things truthy declared Domino's Pizza his "Alpha Dog of The Week" for a "game-changing ad campaign" to promote its new pizza recipe.
Kerry Trueman: Domino's Pizza and the USDA: The Bailout You Didn't Hear About Kerry Trueman 2010
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Back in January, the touter of all things truthy declared Domino's Pizza his "Alpha Dog of The Week" for a "game-changing ad campaign" to promote its new pizza recipe.
Kerry Trueman: Domino's Pizza and the USDA: The Bailout You Didn't Hear About Kerry Trueman 2010
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Back in January, the touter of all things truthy declared Domino's Pizza his "Alpha Dog of The Week" for a "game-changing ad campaign" to promote its new pizza recipe.
Kerry Trueman: Domino's Pizza and the USDA: The Bailout You Didn't Hear About Kerry Trueman 2010
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While Rush LImbaugh -- an early touter of Sarah Palin -- defended the substance of Jindal's message, saying that performance is over-rated, it was all just preaching to the right-wing choir.
William Bradley: Whitman's Sampler: The Ex-eBay CEO's Moves Mirror the Republican Crisis 2009
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The racetrack association came early, as Sporting magazine in 1812 defined a touter as “a person who hides up between the furzes on the heath to see the trials of horses.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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The racetrack association came early, as Sporting magazine in 1812 defined a touter as “a person who hides up between the furzes on the heath to see the trials of horses.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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The touter carries a lantern of that ingenious size which helps to make the darkness more visible; two steps, and you are over the ankles in mud.
Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray
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