The shill bid for the expensive carpet during the auction in order to drive the price up. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Post have so much more merit when they don't use the term shill or phrase: partisan hack. From Wordnik.com. [Drudge Retort] Reference
The definition of the word shill is someone being paid. From Wordnik.com. [Sun Journal top news] Reference
I used the word shill in reference to the checkered career of S. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Bush Administration Has Pressured Half Of Gov’t Scientists To Downplay Global Warming] Reference
His current mission, as ranking shill, is to 3-card-Monty the herd. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Yes, Mr. Kristol, That’s A Crime] Reference
They love to see me characterized as a shill and a geeky sportswriter who was always picked last in pickup games. From Wordnik.com. Reference
But we don't have to -- its time to call a shill a shill: Don't buy SFI. From Wordnik.com. [Todd Paglia: The Sustainable Forestry Initiative's Greenwash: Snake Oil for the 21st Century] Reference
Their shill is a man that goes by the name of Evan Bayh. pronounced "bought". From Wordnik.com. [Do or Die: The Six Senators Who Will Decide the Fate of Health Care Reform] Reference
The practice, which is known as shill bidding is illegal in the UK, but so far he is the first man actually found guilty of it. From Wordnik.com. [Softpedia - Windows - All] Reference
Among other things, Salazar, 49, was labeled a friend of the trial attorneys 'lobby, while Coors was called a shill of big business. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - Salazar defeats Coors for Colorado Senate seat] Reference
This shill is bought by Big Business. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » A guide to debunking Republican talking points at the health care summit.] Reference
Then later I became aware of the meaning of the word "shill". From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Diary: Some Truth For A Change] Reference
Here's a few examples of 'shill' and 'pimp' being used in the same context. From Wordnik.com. [MSNBC's Shuster Suspended After Hillary Camp Criticizes Chelsea "Pimp" Remark] Reference
I take it he couldn't use the word "shill" either. From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
I'd suggest "shill," since he doesn't even care about the truth. From Wordnik.com. [RealClimate] Reference
So what are you, some kind of shill going around trying to cover that up?. From Wordnik.com. [Techdirt] Reference
Accusations that Cramer was a Wall St 'shill' mean that his career is finished. From Wordnik.com. [The First Post: Latest] Reference
That's because Mr Ryan is a "shill" candidate, an employee of the Chicago Department of. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News - Home] Reference
A shill is a shill is a shill. From Wordnik.com. [THE NEWS BLOG] Reference
"shill" the worst contract many have seen in decades. From Wordnik.com. [Deadline.com] Reference
On Suzuki calling him an industry "shill": That’s name-calling that’s not a argument. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference
And ne'er in vain for love's rich gifts, shill yearn. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
Now he's a freaking shill for the recording companies. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
Canyon Ham's son, and sed sarvant of sarvants shill he be. From Wordnik.com. [Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre.] Reference
The shill led the way to an eight-foot tower mounted on gimbals. From Wordnik.com. [Gambler's World] Reference
"We stand against shill and undercover marketing," says the code. From Wordnik.com. [IS IT BUZZ OR MERELY THE NOISE OF A PEST?] Reference
Marines, once refused a shill. from me, saying he did not want it. '. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
All dy chil'ren shill be taught ob de LORD, and great shill be dar peace. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time] Reference
I don't keer ter handle you, but I shill ef you don't leab widin five minutes. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
They don't exactly call him a shill for the oil companies lobbying against Kyoto. From Wordnik.com. [Bush's Foreign Affair] Reference
Then there's Alabama AG Troy King, who called Mr. Feinberg a "corporate shill" of BP. From Wordnik.com. [The Gulf Claims Racket] Reference
"It's just startling to see the greatest American actor become a shill," says one studio exec. From Wordnik.com. [CAREER INTERVENTION: ROBERT DE NIRO] Reference
Some shill enthusing about a revolutionary way to grow "your own real hair" on your bald head. From Wordnik.com. [Walking To Gibraltar, Chapter 6: In Which Moral Boundaries Are Set] Reference
Also, they get a team of Olympic organizers that knows what it means to shill for its sponsors. From Wordnik.com. [A Piece Of The Olympic Action] Reference
Perhaps instead of Brooke Shields as a corporate shill, they should hire Richard Dean Anderson. From Wordnik.com. [The secret revealed - how to unlock the VW Tiguan] Reference
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