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gyp
also gip (jĭp)Offensive Slangtr.v. gypped, gyp·ping, gyps also gipped or gip·ping or gips
To deprive (another) of something by fraud; cheat or swindle.
n.
1. A fraud or swindle.
2. One who defrauds; a swindler.
[Probably short for Gypsy (from prejudiced popular perceptions of the Romani people as thieves and petty swindlers).]
gyp′per n.
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gyp
(dʒɪp) orgip
vb, gyps, gypping, gypped, gips, gipping or gipped
(tr) to swindle, cheat, or defraud
n
1. an act of cheating
2. a person who gyps
[C18: back formation from Gypsy]
gyp
(dʒɪp)n
slang Brit and NZ severe pain; torture: his arthritis gave him gyp.
[C19: probably a contraction of gee up!; see gee1]
gyp
(dʒɪp)n
(Education) a college servant at the universities of Cambridge and Durham. Compare scout15
[C18: perhaps from Gypsy, or from obsolete gippo a scullion]
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gyp
or gip
(dʒɪp)v. gypped, gyp•ping,
n.
usage: This term, though not used as a deliberate slur, is still sometimes felt to be insulting to the Gypsies.
— Informal: Sometimes Offensive. v.t., v.i. 1. to defraud or rob by some sharp practice; swindle; cheat.
n. 2. a swindle or fraud.
3. Also, gyp′per, gyp•ster (ˈdʒɪp stər) a swindler or cheat.
[1875–80, Amer.; shortening of Gypsy]
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gyp
Past participle: gypped
Gerund: gypping
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Noun | 1. | gyp - a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, hustle, con, sting sting operation - a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals) |
Verb | 1. | gyp - deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change" bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, swindle, short-change, victimize short, short-change - cheat someone by not returning him enough money |
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gyp
also gipverb
noun
1. Slang. An act of cheating:
Informal: flimflam.
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Translations
gyp
1 [dʒɪp] (US)gyp
2 [dʒɪp] N (Brit) to give sb gyp (= scold) → echar un rapapolvo de aúpa a algnit's giving me gyp (= hurting) → me duele una barbaridad
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gyp
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