4 July 2014

shill

[shil]
Slang.
noun

1. a person who poses as a customer in order to decoy others into participating, as at a gambling house, auction, confidence game, etc.
2. a person who publicizes or praises something or someone for reasons of self-interest, personal profit, or friendship or loyalty.
verb (used without object)
3. to work as a shill: He shills for a large casino.
verb (used with object)
4. to advertise or promote (a product) as or in the manner of a huckster; hustle: He was hired to shill a new TV show.
Origin:
1920–25; origin uncertain

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Today’s aphorism

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

– Andy Warhol

On this day

4 July 1943 – birth of Alan Wilson. American guitarist and singer-songwriter for Canned Heat.

4 July 1991 – Dr Victor Chang, a Chinese-Australian cardiac surgeon is shot dead during a failed extortion attempt. Chang pioneered heart transplants. He was born on 21 November 1936.