A shill is a person who publicly attempts to constitute, increase or sustain credibility and/or approval of/to an entity without disclosing that they have a relationship with the entity, understating the type, importance or closeness of said relationship or concealing the actual role in which they perform for said entity.
The goal of the the shill is a (expected) personal benefit, may it be profit (participation), wage, payment by result or enabling, increasing or sustaining the chance of success for a specific socio-economic or socio-political project.
The entity can be either a person or an organized or disorganized group. Organized groups have some level of structure and decision-making ability while disorganized groups don't.
Organized groups can be the government, politicial parties, profit-oriented companies, investment or interest groups (hedgefonds, freemasons) or non-profit non-government organizations like non-profit companies, charities, churches or cults. Disorganized groups can be religions or unreligious cosmovisions (atheism, humanism), permanent political ideologies (f.e. communism, capitalism) or temporary political interest groups (f.e. "pro-life-movement" for abolishing the right to have an abortion).
The difference between shilling and expression of opinion is that the benefit is received from an external rather than an (emotional or intellectual) internal source or that the external force dominates the internal motivation.
The goal of the the shill is a (expected) personal benefit, may it be profit (participation), wage, payment by result or enabling, increasing or sustaining the chance of success for a specific socio-economic or socio-political project.
The entity can be either a person or an organized or disorganized group. Organized groups have some level of structure and decision-making ability while disorganized groups don't.
Organized groups can be the government, politicial parties, profit-oriented companies, investment or interest groups (hedgefonds, freemasons) or non-profit non-government organizations like non-profit companies, charities, churches or cults. Disorganized groups can be religions or unreligious cosmovisions (atheism, humanism), permanent political ideologies (f.e. communism, capitalism) or temporary political interest groups (f.e. "pro-life-movement" for abolishing the right to have an abortion).
The difference between shilling and expression of opinion is that the benefit is received from an external rather than an (emotional or intellectual) internal source or that the external force dominates the internal motivation.
That snake is promoting the APPLE (TM) product of that tree to Adam, because he wants to create SIN (TM), but he tells him it's for his own good. What a fucking shill!
by SupremeLeaderDickos March 7, 2020
Fake participants in the street gambling card game, three-card monte. They are decoys who "play" and "win" to entice novices into playing and loosing their money, but they are actually in on the scam with the dealer.
by Doyenne March 25, 2008
Often found using the hashtag for music artist #Operation1009 on social media.
A shill is a person who intentionally circulates false information or posts wild conspiracy based information that has zero basis in reality. Shills do not do any research before making a claim and typically cannot back up their information when challenged. Shills are often thought to be hired by the government but don't necessarily have to be.
A shill is a person who intentionally circulates false information or posts wild conspiracy based information that has zero basis in reality. Shills do not do any research before making a claim and typically cannot back up their information when challenged. Shills are often thought to be hired by the government but don't necessarily have to be.
The deep state loves shills because their wild claims can be used by the media to paint everyone in a movement that's exposing them as conspiracy theorists and nut jobs!
by MalloryKnox14 March 16, 2023
A person who can walk showing up to a healer or snake oil salesmen in a wheelchair or rolling knee board on the ground, then pretending to be healed and walking off is a Shill. 2)A person who is engaged in controlled opposition, who is pretending to represent their opposition to damage the reputation of their opponent is a shill.
by Montana Made October 4, 2019
1. What happened to the gas station owned after the robbery?
-Man, he was shilled.
2. Yo, Fabolous was going hard on that girl with 11 toes. He shilled her! lol
-Man, he was shilled.
2. Yo, Fabolous was going hard on that girl with 11 toes. He shilled her! lol
by jillibugc June 22, 2011
1. a foreign type of currency that is equivelant to the U.S.A Quarter Dollar(25 cent)
2. a word that can be used to substitute bulshitt
2. a word that can be used to substitute bulshitt
1. lolipops at a convient store, cost about a Shilling now adays.
2. stop all these lies, its total Shilling.
2. stop all these lies, its total Shilling.
by Sahara Desert December 30, 2009