Noun

(wikipedia tout) (en noun)

Someone advertising]] for [[customer, customers in an aggressive way.

*1886 , , The Princess Casamassima .

*:Paul Muniment looked at his young friend a moment. 'Do you want to know what he is? He's a tout .'

*:'A tout ? What do you mean?'

*:'Well, a cat's-paw, if you like better.'

*:Hyacinth stared. 'For whom, pray?'

*:'Or a fisherman, if you like better still. I give you your choice of comparisons. I made them up as we came along in the hansom. He throws his nets and hauls in the little fishes—the pretty little shining, wriggling fishes. They are all for her; she swallows, 'em down.'

A person, at a racecourse, who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win.

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, title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=No one, however, would have anything to do with him, as Mr. Keeson's orders in those respects were very strict ; he had often threatened any one of his employés with instant dismissal if he found him in company with one of these touts .}}

Noun

(en noun)

One who scalps, or removes the scalp of another.

* 2013 , M. Elise Marubbio, ?Eric L. Buffalohead, Native Americans on Film: Conversations, Teaching, and Theory

Denouncing representations of hostile Indians as vicious scalpers of innocent settlers

(US) One who scalps tickets to popular entertainment events: buying them in advance and then selling them (e.g. online or just outside the venue of the event), often at inflated prices

We could see three different scalpers moving through the crowd outside the arena, each muttering the characteristic refrain: “Need any tickets?”

(finance) A person on an open outcry exchange trading floor who buys and sells rapidly for his or her own account, aiming to buy from a seller and a little later sell to a buyer, making a small profit from the difference (roughly the amount of the bid/offer spread, or less).