Pimp vs. Tout

Pimpnoun

Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.

Pimpnoun

A man who can easily attract women.

Pimpverb

(intransitive) To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.

Pimpverb

(transitive) To prostitute someone.

Pimpverb

To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle, according to ghetto standards (also pimp out).

Pimpverb

To ask progressively harder and ultimately unanswerable questions of a resident or medical student (said of a senior member of the medical staff).

Pimpverb

To promote, to tout.

Pimpverb

To persuade, smooth talk or trick another into doing something for your benefit.

Pimpadjective

(slang) excellent, fashionable, stylish

Pimpnumeral

five in Cumbrian and Welsh sheep counting

Pimpnoun

One who provides gratification for the lust of others; a procurer; a pander.

Pimpverb

To procure women for the gratification of others' lusts; to pander.

Pimpnoun

someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)

Pimpverb

arrange for sexual partners for others

Toutnoun

Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.

Toutnoun

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

Toutnoun

A spy for a smuggler, thief, or similar.

Toutnoun

(colloquial) An informer in the Irish Republican Army.

Toutnoun

(card games) In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks.

Toutverb

(transitive) To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag; to promote.

Toutverb

(obsolete) To look upon or watch.

Toutverb

To spy out information about (a horse, a racing stable, etc.).

Toutverb

To give a tip on (a racehorse) to a person, with the expectation of sharing in any winnings.

Toutverb

To spy out the movements of racehorses at their trials, or to get by stealth or other improper means the secrets of the stable, for betting purposes.

Toutverb

To act as a tout; to give a tip on a racehorse.

Toutverb

(intransitive) To look for, try to obtain; used with for.

Toutverb

To act as a tout. See 2d Tout.

Toutverb

To ply or seek for customers.

Toutverb

To look narrowly; spy.

Toutverb

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.

Toutverb

To toot a horn.

Toutverb

To spy out information about, as a racing stable or horse.

Toutnoun

One who secretly watches race horses which are in course of training, to get information about their capabilities, for use in betting.

Toutnoun

One who gives a tip on a race horses for an expected compensation, esp. in hopes of a share in any winnings; - usually contemptuous.

Toutnoun

One who solicits custom, as a runner for a hotel, cab, gambling place.

Toutnoun

A spy for a smuggler, thief, or the like.

Toutnoun

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

Toutnoun

The anus.

Toutnoun

someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit

Toutnoun

someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way

Toutnoun

one who sells advice about gambling or speculation (especially at the racetrack)

Toutverb

advertize in strongly positive terms;

Toutverb

show off

Tout

A tout is any person who solicits business or employment in a persistent and annoying manner (generally equivalent to a solicitor or barker in American English, or a spruiker in Australian English). An example would be a person who frequents heavily touristed areas and presents himself as a tour guide (particularly towards those who do not speak the local language) but operates on behalf of local bars, restaurant, or hotels, being paid to direct tourists towards certain establishments.