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Definitions: Shill |
ShillNoun1. A decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to stimulate the participation of others. Verb1. Act as a shill. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "shill" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1700. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Occupations | Participates in card game, usually poker, for gambling establishment to provide minimum complement of players at table. Relinquishes seat on arrival of patron desiring to play cards. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In the broader marketing arena, a shill functions as a provider of a testimonial - apparently unsolicited. In sales, the customer reference or the reference site equates to the shill.
The term is also used by illusionistss to describe a collaborator in a magic trick.
The word is probably an abbreviation of shillaber, which has the same meaning, and appeared early in the 20th century from an unknown origin.
See also: marketing, sales, ethics
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| "Shill" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 89.47% of the time. "Shill" is used about 38 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 89.47% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Noun (singular) | 7.89% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.63% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 38 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "shill" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Shill | Last name | 300 | 26,062 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "shill": Shill-I-shall-I. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
the shill | 23 |
bidding shill | 5 |
bidding ebay shill | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "shill"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 骗人上"的人. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | illshay подставное лицо (stalking horse, stooge). (various references) Cómplice (abettor, accessory, accomplice, associate, confederate, party, privy). (various references) Lockfågel (decoy, lure, stool pigeon), Bondfångares Medhjälpare. (various references) การต้มตุ๋น. (various references) Закликальник (Barker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "shill": shillala, shillalah, shillalahs, shillalas, shilled, shillelagh, shillelaghs, shilling, shillings, shills. (additional references) | |
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"Shill" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ashall, Schil, Schily, Shal, shally, sheil, shel, shelk, shelp, shil, shilb, shile, shilli, shilluk, shilly, Shilo, shilt, Shimla, shl, Sholl, shul, shull, Shurll, shyla, sqill, svill, whill, Zihl. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "shill" (pronounced shi"l) |
| 2 | -i" l | bill, Brazil, brill, chill, dill, distil, distill, drill, Fil, fill, frill, fulfill, Gill, goodwill, grill, grille, Hill, ill, instill, Jill, kill, krill, Mil, mill, Mille, nil, nill, pill, prill, quill, refill, rill, shrill, sill, skill, spill, still, swill, thill, thrill, til, till, trill, twill, until, uphill, will, zill. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: hills. | |
| Words within the letters "h-i-l-l-s" | |
-1 letter: hill, ills, sill. | |
-2 letters: his, ill, lis. | |
-3 letters: hi, is, li, sh, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-i-l-l-s" | |
+1 letter: chills, hillos, shills, shrill, thills. | |
+2 letters: bullish, challis, dollish, dullish, hellish, hillers, hilloas, hilloes, hollies, shilled, shrills, shrilly, tallish, thrills, uphills, zillahs. | |
+3 letters: anthills, billfish, bullshit, challies, chillers, chillest, chillies, chillums, elfishly, elvishly, fallfish, flashily, ghillies, helleris, hellions, hilliest, hillocks, hillside, hilltops, hiltless, lavishly, lithosol, littlish, mulishly, oilholes, owlishly, phallism, phallist, plushily, schiller, shellier, shelling, shigella, shillala, shilling, shlemiel, shoebill, shrilled, shriller, sidehill, slightly, slushily, smallish, talliths. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 68 69 6C 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .... .. .-.. .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101000 01101001 01101100 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S h i l l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0068 0069 006C 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5374757878 |
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