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say it: shil
shill is a noun and verb meaning "a decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to stimulate the participation of others". It is pronounced /ˈʃɪl/ — shil. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to stimulate the participation of others
act as a shill
“This man shilled and bid for an expensive carpet during the auction in order to drive the price up”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for shill come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.