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gyp
1[ jip ]
verb (used with or without object)
- Informal: Offensive. to defraud or rob by some sharp practice; swindle; cheat.
noun
- Informal: Offensive. a con, fraud, cheat, or ripoff.
- Also gyp·per [] gyp·ster []. Informal: Offensive. a swindler or cheat.
- Also called gypsy. (in horse racing) an owner of racehorses who also acts as trainer and jockey.
gyp
2[ jip ]
noun
- a male college servant, as at Cambridge and Durham.
gyp
1/ dʒɪp /
noun
- slang.severe pain; torture
his arthritis gave him gyp
gyp
2/ dʒɪp /
verb
- tr to swindle, cheat, or defraud
noun
- an act of cheating
- a person who gyps
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Example Sentences
Away they went, with Gyp at their heels, and every footstep resounded through the old house until they reached the upper floor.
An English, an American Gyp would typographically offend, and that would be the end of her.
It was kept by his old college gyp, a man of discreet silence, who was admirably partnered by an excellent cook.
Had he acted discourteously to his bedmaker or his gyp, he would have minded just as much, which was not polite of him.
Her age was seventeen, and she dressed after Carmen to please herself, and read Gyp with the same intention.
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