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gyp
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun gyp has 1 sense
- gyp(n = noun.act) bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, hustle, sting - a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property; Array has particulars: sting operation
is a kind of cheat, rig, swindle
Derived form verb gyp1
Verb gyp has 1 sense
- gyp(v = verb.social) bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize - 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" is one way to cheat, chisel, rip off
Derived form noun gyp1
Sample sentence:
They gyp him of all his money
CIDE DICTIONARY
gyp, n. [Said to be a sportive application of Gr. gy`ps a vulture.].
A college servant; -- so called in Cambridge, England; at Oxford called a scout . [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
gyp, n. Brit. colloq.
1 pain or severe discomfort.
2 a scolding (gave them gyp).
1 pain or severe discomfort.
2 a scolding (gave them gyp).
gyp, n. Brit. a college servant at Cambridge and Durham.
gyp, v. & n. sl.
--v.tr. (gypped, gypping) cheat, swindle.
--n. an act of cheating; a swindle.
--v.tr. (gypped, gypping) cheat, swindle.
--n. an act of cheating; a swindle.
Etymology
19th c.: perh. f. GYP(2)
THESAURUS
gyp
Partlet, Seeing Eye dog, ballot-box stuffing, bandog, beat, beguile of, biddy, bilk, bitch, bossy, bowwow, brood mare, bunco, burn, canine, cardsharping, cheat, cheating, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, cog, cog the dice, con, con man, cow, cozen, cozenage, crib, defraud, defrauder, diddle, diddler, diddling, dishonesty, do, do in, do out of, dodge, doe, dog, double-dealer, euchre, ewe, ewe lamb, fake, fancy dog, filly, finagle, fishy transaction, flam, fleece, flimflam, flimflammer, fob, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, fudge, gerrymandering, gouge, graft, grift, guide dog, guinea hen, gull, gyp joint, have, heifer, hen, hind, hoax, hocus, hocus-pocus, humbug, illicit business, imposition, imposture, jenny, kennel, lap dog, lioness, mare, mountebank, mulct, nanny, nanny goat, overreach, pack of dogs, pack the deal, peahen, phony, pigeon, pooch, practice fraud upon, pup, puppy, racket, roe, rook, scam, screw, sell, sell gold bricks, sharper, shave, she-bear, she-goat, she-lion, sheep dog, shortchange, show dog, sled dog, slut, sow, spoof, stack the cards, stick, sting, swindle, take a dive, thimblerig, throw a fight, tigress, toy dog, trickster, victimize, vixen, watchdog, whelp, working dog
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