Definition: one who sells advice about gambling or speculation (especially at the racetrack)
Similar words: adviser, advisor, consultant
Definition: an expert who gives advice
Usage: an adviser helped students select their courses; the United States sent military advisors to Guatemala
Definition: someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way
Similar words: advertiser, advertizer, adman
Definition: someone whose business is advertising
Synonyms: tout, ticket tout
Definition: someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit
Similar words: scalper
Definition: someone who buys something and resells it at a price far above the initial cost
Usage: he got theater tickets through a scalper
Synonyms: brag, blow, bluster, boast, shoot a line, vaunt, swash, tout, gas, gasconade
Definition: show off
Similar words: exaggerate, amplify, magnify, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, overdraw, overstate
Definition: to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
Usage: tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery
Synonyms: tout
Definition: advertize in strongly positive terms
Usage: This product was touted as a revolutionary invention
Similar words: pronounce, label, judge
Definition: pronounce judgment on
Usage: They labeled him unfit to work here