Definition of "shill" in inglés

noun

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

   • carnival barkers and their shills, fleecing the rubes

2. (derogatory) Any person enthusiastically endorsing a product; especially, one who is getting paid for the endorsement.

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

3. 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.

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

4. (gambling) A house player in a casino.

verb

1. (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.

   • That contractor seems to be shilling for a certain brand of building materials.
   • That contractor seems to be shilling that specific epoxy.

verb

1. To put under cover; to sheal.

verb

1. (UK, obsolete, dialect) To shell.