tout
/taʊt/ verbDefinition
PRAISE [T] › to praise someone or something in order to make people think that they are important: [often passive] He is being touted as the next big star.
SELL [I, T] mainly UK › to try to persuade people to buy something: Drug dealers were seen touting for business outside schools.
(Definition of tout verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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