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tout

/taʊt/ noun C2
  1. Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way. · Be careful of the ticket touts outside the arena; they are famed for selling counterfeits.
  2. A person at a racecourse who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win.
  3. An informer in the Irish Republican Army. (colloquial)

Plural touts

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“‘L’homme c’est rien—l’œuvre c’est tout,’ as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand.”
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 33 · B2

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