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jip] Pronunciation Key verb, gypped, gyp·ping, noun

–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)

1.	to defraud or rob by some sharp practice; swindle; cheat.

–noun

2.	a swindle or fraud.

3.	Also, gyp·per Audio Help [jip-er] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation, gypster. a swindler or cheat.

4.	Also called gypsy. an owner of racehorses who also acts as trainer and jockey.

Also, gip.

[Origin: 1885–90, Americanism; back formation from Gypsy

]

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–noun British Informal.

a male college servant, as at Cambridge and Durham.

[Origin: 1740–50; perh. from Gypsy

]

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gyp also gip Audio Help   (jĭp) Pronunciation Key
tr.v.   gypped also gipped, gyp·ping also gip·ping, gyps also gips
To deprive (another) of something by fraud; cheat or swindle.

n.

A fraud or swindle.
One who defrauds; a swindler.

[Probably short for Gypsy.]

gyp'per n.

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gyp

"to cheat, swindle," 1889, Amer.Eng., probably short for Gypsy.

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gyp
noun
1.	a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
verb
1.	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"