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Shill vs Booster - What's the difference?

shill | booster |

As nouns the difference between shill and booster

is that shill is a person paid to endorse a product favourably, while pretending to be impartial while booster is something that boosts.

As a verb shill

is (pejorative) to promote or endorse in return for payment, especially dishonestly.

shill

English

(wikipedia shill)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person paid to endorse a product favourably, while pretending to be impartial.
  • * 26 June 2014 , A.A Dowd, AV Club Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler spoof rom-com clichés in They Came Together [http://www.avclub.com/review/paul-rudd-and-amy-poehler-spoof-rom-com-cliches-th-206220]
    • You’ve Got Mail is certainly the basic model for the plot, which finds corporate candy shill Joel (Rudd) and indie-sweetshop owner Molly (Poehler) regaling their dinner companions with the very long, digressive story of how they met and fell in love.
  • * 1983 , , Prometheus Rising ,
    • Witnesses have testified that Jim Jones (like a few other professional faith-healers) used shills part of the time....
  • An accomplice at a confidence trick during an auction or gambling game.
  • * 1994 , , The Crossing ,
    • 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 .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (pejorative) To promote or endorse in return for payment, especially dishonestly.
  • * 1996 , , The Demon-Haunted World ,
    • 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.

    • Related terms

    * sheep-dip

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    booster

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia booster) (en noun)
  • Something that boosts.
  • The first stage of a multistage rocket that provides the thrust for liftoff and the initial flight
  • A motor-generator set used for voltage regulation in direct current electrical power circuits.
  • Someone who is a fan or supporter of something.
  • * 2012 , The Economist, Lexington: A fiscal hawk, grounded
    • Nor is his district quite the Democratic bastion boosters describe: voters there narrowly backed Barack Obama in 2008, but voted for Mr Bush by a hefty margin in 2004.
  • Someone who promotes a town or business
  • A member of a booster club.
  • A booster dose.
    • When did you get your last tetanus booster ?
  • (linguistics) A term that serves to amplify or strengthen an utterance, such as "really".

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