Shill

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “carnival barkers and their shills, fleecing the rubes”

2. isim 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. isim 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. isim A house player in a casino.

   “There may even be a casino shill sitting adjacent to you. Normally, the casino shills are gorgeous women, and sometimes men, so enjoy the scenery.”

5. fiil 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.”

6. fiil To put under cover; to sheal.
7. fiil To shell.
8. özel isim A surname.