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Tout   /taʊt/   Listen
noun
Tout  n.  
1.
One who secretly watches race horses which are in course of training, to get information about their capabilities, for use in betting. (Cant. Eng.)
2.
One who gives a tip on a race horses for an expected compensation, esp. in hopes of a share in any winnings; usually contemptuous. (Cant, U. S.)
3.
One who solicits custom, as a runner for a hotel, cab, gambling place. (Colloq.)
4.
A spy for a smuggler, thief, or the like. (Colloq.)


Tout  n.  In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks.


Tout  n.  The anus. (Obs.)


verb
Tout  v. t.  (Horse Racing)
(a)
To spy out information about, as a racing stable or horse. (Cant, Eng.)
(b)
To give a tip on (a race horse) to a better with the expectation of sharing in the latter's winnings. (Cant, U. S.)


Toot  v. i.  (Written also tout)  
1.
To stand out, or be prominent. (Obs.)
2.
To peep; to look narrowly. (Obs.) "For birds in bushes tooting."


Tout  v. i.  
1.
To act as a tout. See 2d Tout. (Cant. Eng.)
2.
To ply or seek for customers. (Prov. Eng.)


Tout  v. i.  (past & past part. touted; pres. part. touting)  
1.
To look narrowly; spy. (Scot. & Dial. Eng.)
2.
(Horse Racing)
(a)
To spy out the movements of race horses at their trials, or to get by stealth or other improper means the secrets of the stable, for betting purposes. (Cant, Eng.)
(b)
To act as a tout; to tout, or give a tip on, a race horse. (Cant, U. S.)


Tout  v. i.  To toot a horn.





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"Tout" Quotes from Famous Books



... battering on the door of his dispassionateness, 'I have had everything in life except you,' he said. I smiled at him, a little sadly, a little cynically. 'It is I who have given you the greatest gift,' I said. 'I have given you a regret and an illusion. Vous avez donc tout eu.' That ...
— Balloons • Elizabeth Bibesco
... laid down as the law of man: "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, and in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children;" but "nous avons change tout ca," as Moliere's character says, when expressing himself with regard to medicine, and asserting that the liver was on the left side. We have changed all that. Men need not work in order to eat, and women ...
— What To Do? - thoughts evoked by the census of Moscow • Count Lyof N. Tolstoi
... me contentent pas; Et, hors un gros Plutarque a mettre mes rabats, Vous devriez bruler tout ce meuble inutile";— ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 27, January, 1860 • Various
... his will, but to-night, perhaps because of his own crisis, he seemed to see it all for the first time. He was conscious now of Davray and was aware that he did not like him and wished to be rid of him—"an awful-looking tout" he thought him, "with his greasy long hair and his white long ...
— The Cathedral • Hugh Walpole
... failure! Turning out nothing, coming to nothing; nothing, I mean, that is satisfying. "Tout lasse,—tout casse,—tout passe!" A true ...
— A Red Wallflower • Susan Warner


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