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1. Someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way
   - touter
    
2. One who sells advice about gambling or speculation (especially at the racetrack)
   - tipster
    
3. Someone who buys something and resells it at a price far above the initial cost
   "he got theatre tickets through a tout";
   - scalper [N. Amer], ticket tout [Brit]

1. Advertise in strongly positive terms
   "This product was touted as a revolutionary invention"
    
2. Show off, esp. with exaggeration
   - boast, swash [archaic], shoot a line [informal], brag, gas [informal], blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade [archaic], skite [Austral, NZ, informal]

Derived forms: touts, touting, touted

Type of: adman, advertiser, advertizer [US, non-standard], adviser, advisor, amplify, consultant, exaggerate, hyperbolise [Brit], hyperbolize, judge, label, magnify, overdraw, overstate, plunger, pronounce, speculator

Encyclopedia: Tout, New South Wales