sugging

/S AH1 G IH0 NG/
verb
  1. 1

    To market a product or service by means of purported market research.

noun
  1. 1

    The process where a product marketer falsely pretends to be a market researcher conducting a survey, when in reality they are simply trying to sell the product.

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