English Dictionary

tout

/taʊt/

noun

Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way. / A person, at a racecourse, who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win.

Je veux essayer tout.

意味（1）

Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.

Be careful of the ticket touts outside the arena, they are famed for selling counterfeits.

意味（2）

A person, at a racecourse, who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win.

No one, however, would have anything to do with him, as Mr. Keeson's orders in those respects were very strict ; he had often threatened any one of his employés with instant dismissal if he found him in company with one of these touts.

意味（3）

(colloquial) An informer in the Irish Republican Army.

The Derry Brigade of the IRA thought it had got rid of its informer problem when earlier that year it executed Paddy Flood as a tout, after holding him for six weeks.

意味（4）

(colloquial, archaic) A spy for a smuggler, thief, or similar.