Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to stimulate the participation of others;
VERB (1)
1.
act as a shill;
- Example: "The shill bid for the expensive carpet during the auction in order to drive the price up"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Shill \Shill\, v. t.
To shell. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Shill \Shill\, v. t. [Cf. Sheal.]
To put under cover; to sheal. [Prov.ng.] --Brockett.
[1913 Webster] Shillalah
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
shill
n 1: a decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to
stimulate the participation of others
v 1: act as a shill; "The shill bid for the expensive carpet
during the auction in order to drive the price up"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
19 Moby Thesaurus words for "shill":
agent provocateur, bid, bid in, bid up, blind, bonnet, booster,
by-bidder, capper, come-on man, decoy, make a bid, make an offer,
offer, offer to buy, plant, stick, stool pigeon, stoolie