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[
jip] 
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 [jip-er] , gypster. a swindler or cheat. |
| 4. | Also called gypsy. an owner of racehorses who also acts as trainer and jockey. |
gyp
2 [jip] –noun British Informal.
| a male college servant, as at Cambridge and Durham. |
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| gyp also gip (jĭp) tr.v. gypped also gipped, gyp·ping also gip·ping, gyps also gips To deprive (another) of something by fraud; cheat or swindle. n.
[Probably short for Gypsy.] gyp'per n. |
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Gyp
Gyp\, n. [Said to be a sportive application of Gr. ? a vulture.] A college servant; -- so called in Cambridge, England; at Oxford called a scout. [Cant]
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