Shilling

n. monetary unit of a number of countries (Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda); former monetary unit of a number of countries (including the United Kingdom, Australia, Ghana, etc.); coin formerly used in the United Kingdom and the United States

v. act as a shill, work as a shill, act as a decoy, pose as a customer in order to lure other customers (in gambling houses, games of chance, etc.)

The shilling is a unit of currency in current and former use in many countries. The word is thought to derive from the base skell-, "to ring/resound", and the diminutive suffix -ing. The abbreviation for shilling is s, from the Latin solidus, the name of a Roman coin. Often it was written informally or printed with a slash, e.g., 1/6d as 1 shilling and sixpence (often pronounced "one and six"), or when there were no pence with a slash then a hyphen, e.g., "11/-". Quite often a triangular shape or (sans serif) apostrophe would be used to give a neater appearance, e.g., "1'6" and "11'-". In Africa it is often abbreviated sh.
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Noun
1. the basic unit of money in Uganda; equal to 100 cents
(synonym) Ugandan shilling
(hypernym) Ugandan monetary unit
2. the basic unit of money in Tanzania; equal to 100 cents
(synonym) Tanzanian shilling
(hypernym) Tanzanian monetary unit
3. the basic unit of money in Somalia; equal to 100 cents
(synonym) Somalian shilling
(hypernym) Somalian monetary unit
4. the basic unit of money in Kenya; equal to 100 cents
(synonym) Kenyan shilling
(hypernym) Kenyan monetary unit
5. a former monetary unit in Great Britain
(synonym) British shilling, bob
(hypernym) British monetary unit
(part-meronym) cent
6. an English coin worth one twentieth of a pound
(hypernym) coin

Noun
1. a decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to stimulate the participation of others
(hypernym) decoy, steerer
Verb
1. act as a shill; "The shill bid for the expensive carpet during the auction in order to drive the price up"
(hypernym) deceive, lead on, delude, cozen

n. shilling, monetary unit of a number of countries (Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda); former monetary unit of a number of countries (including the United Kingdom, Australia, Ghana, etc.)

shilling, monetary unit of a number of countries (Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda)