See shill on Wiktionary
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"sense": "a person paid to endorse a product favourably",
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪl"
}
],
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"shill"
],
"word": "shill"
}
{
"categories": [
"English calculator words",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English links with manual fragments",
"English links with redundant alt parameters",
"English links with redundant wikilinks",
"English terms with homophones",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/ɪl",
"Rhymes:English/ɪl/1 syllable",
"en:People"
],
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"forms": [
{
"form": "shills",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "shilling",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "shilled",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "shilled",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
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}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "hawk"
},
{
"word": "prostitute"
},
{
"word": "sell out"
},
{
"word": "whore"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"British English",
"English dialectal terms",
"English terms with obsolete senses"
],
"glosses": [
"To shell."
],
"links": [
[
"shell",
"shell#Verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(UK, obsolete, dialect) To shell."
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"dialectal",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ʃɪl/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-shill.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/dc/En-us-shill.ogg/En-us-shill.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/En-us-shill.ogg"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-shill.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/64/En-au-shill.ogg/En-au-shill.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/En-au-shill.ogg"
},
{
"homophone": "she'll (in some accents)"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪl"
}
],
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"shill"
],
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}
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