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Shill
Sat Mar 11 2000 at 20:05:28
A person who poses as an innocent bystander at a confidence game but actually serves as a decoy for the perpetrators of the scheme.
Sun Aug 05 2001 at 1:50:27
This is a poker term used to describe a player that is paid by the card room or casino to play poker. A shill is similar to a prop , the difference being in that the shill plays with money belonging to the employer. Shills have the advantage over props because they cannot lose.
Wed Sep 21 2005 at 13:46:10
In the parlance of the confidence game, a shill is a type of con man, or, more accurately, a role a con man plays in the big game. The term applies generally to anyone who acts as an outsider (as opposed to, logically enough, an insider).