shill
A person paid to endorse a product while pretending to be impartial.
Witnesses have testified that Jim Jones (like a few other professional faith-healers) used shills part of the time […]
(derogatory) Any person paid to endorse a product.
An accomplice at a confidence trick during an auction or gambling game.
The pitchman swept his cane in a slow acceleration over the heads of the crowd and then suddenly pointed the silver cap toward Billy and the shill.
(gambling) A house player in a casino.
(derogatory) To promote or endorse in return for payment, especially dishonestly.
Today there are even commercials in which real scientists, some of considerable distinction, shill for corporations. They teach that scientists too will lie for money. As Tom Paine warned, inuring us to lies lays the groundwork for many other evils.
To put under cover; to sheal.
(UK, obsolete, dialect) To shell.
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