shill
shil
- n a decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to stimulate the participation of others
- v act as a shill
The shill bid for the expensive carpet during the auction in order to drive the price up
- No one would mistake Chris Paine for a General Motors shill.
- They don't shill for mobile-phone or soft-drink companies.
- And while reliably conservative, AoS is no shill; last summer, the blog called President Bush "incompetent" and "embarrassingly dimwitted" and urged him to retire.