Meanings
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noun
a person who solicits customers or promotes something in an insistent or obtrusive way
Touters crowded the station entrance, loudly offering rooms and carriage rides.
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Etymology
Formed from tout + the agent suffix -er, literally "one who touts." Tout once meant to watch or look out; its commercial sense developed through seeking information or custom and then soliciting customers obtrusively.