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Shill   /ʃɪl/   Listen
Shill

noun
1.
A decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to stimulate the participation of others.






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"Shill" Quotes from Famous Books



... I kin see, In all the light of the day, What you've got to do with the question Ef Tim shill go or stay. And furder than that I give notice, Ef one of you tetches the boy, He kin check his trunks to a warmer clime Than ...
— Pike County Ballads and Other Poems • John Hay

... played shill-I-shall-I with my devotion; vowed she would not marry me till I had been killed in the wars to prove I was a hero; smiled on me one minute ...
— A Daughter of Raasay - A Tale of the '45 • William MacLeod Raine

... Stone, or Loadstone; of great virtue—"which was sold out of the library for v shill. and for it afterwards (yea piece-meal divided) was more than xx lib. ...
— Bibliomania; or Book-Madness - A Bibliographical Romance • Thomas Frognall Dibdin

... Thy step was swift and graceful as the roe upon the mountains—why didst thou leave me? But I will follow thee, my warrior, The death-bird has called me, and I come to thee! Thy child shall live; for Mahneto has given him friends and a home. He shall grow up like thee, and Oriana shill be o mother to him when I am gone: and the blue-eyed stranger, whom she loves as I loved thee, shall guide his hand in war, and in the chase. Lincoya! I ...
— The Pilgrims of New England - A Tale Of The Early American Settlers • Mrs. J. B. Webb

... him gentle Gawayne, Said, "Lady, that's but a shill; Because thou art mine own lady Thou shalt ...
— Grisly Grisell • Charlotte M. Yonge

... meny new korporations springing up around yere, I exshpect Coryopolis will be havin' a Mayor next an' he'll come in the city an' want to have immunity fur any crime he may commit. No, you nabobs wid dese automobiles must be held in check. Ye kilt two shill-dren and a hog out ...
— Watch Yourself Go By • Al. G. Field



Words linked to "Shill" :   lead on, steerer, decoy, cozen, delude, deceive



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