gypped

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

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

noun

a swindle or fraud.

Also, gyp·per

[jip-er] , gypster. a swindler or cheat.

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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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a fool or simpleton; ninny.

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World English Dictionary

gyp or slang gip¹ (dʒɪp)

—vb , gyps, gypping, gypped, gips, gipping, gipped
1.	(tr) to swindle, cheat, or defraud

—n
2.	an act of cheating
3.	a person who gyps

[C18: back formation from Gypsy]

gip or slang gip¹

—vb

—n

[C18: back formation from Gypsy]

gyp² (dʒɪp)

—n
	slang (Brit), (NZ) severe pain; torture: his arthritis gave him gyp

[C19: probably a contraction of gee up!; see gee¹]

gyp³ (dʒɪp)

—n
	Compare scout a college servant at the universities of Cambridge and Durham

[C18: perhaps from Gypsy, or from obsolete gippo a scullion]

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Word Origin & History

gyp

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

Example sentences

Whatever you decide to do about partial credit, someone is bound to feel gypped and they will complain, perhaps rightly so.

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"The misery of the middle-aged woman is a grey and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn."

-Germaine Greer