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hype

[hahyp]

verb (used with object)

to stimulate, excite, or agitate (usually followed by up): She was hyped up at the thought of owning her own car.

to create interest in by flamboyant or dramatic methods; promote or publicize showily: a promoter who knows how to hype a prizefight.

to intensify (advertising, promotion, or publicity) by ingenious or questionable claims, methods, etc. (usually followed by up).

to trick; gull.

noun

exaggerated publicity; hoopla.

an ingenious or questionable claim, method, etc., used in advertising, promotion, or publicity to intensify the effect.

a swindle, deception, or trick.

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Origin:
1925–30, Americanism; in sense “to trick, swindle,” of uncertain origin; subsequent senses perhaps by reanalysis as a shortening of hyperbole

Example Sentences

Hype and its nasty manipulations are explored ad infinitum in this book.

And the hype over online social networking has only increased in the past several months.

The red-blue divide is more media hype than reality.

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Hype and its nasty manipulations are explored ad infinitum in this book.

And the hype over online social networking has only increased in the past several months.

The red-blue divide is more media hype than reality.

What is needed is independent verification with controls, otherwise this ridiculous hype will continue.

There's been much hype and speculation, but scientists don't appear to be worried.

Let's put all this hype about change and transformation in perspective.

The announcement has generated a lot of hype for the fledgling company.

The danger of hype is to be hanged high when you are caught at it.

Some fear it is true for whatever reason and believe the hype.

Hype does not suddenly make the research higher quality.

Nanotechnology is still buoyed more by hype than actual pay-off.

But the premature hype continues to generate disproportioned hopes among the press, the public and the stock market.

Dont complain that the bill of goods that you were sold did not live up to the hype.

Well worth reading for anyone interested in microfinance, and looking to move beyond either the hype or the naysayers.

He and others describe climate migration as a distant issue earning an inordinate amount of media hype.

The new science of synthetic biology is poised between hype and hope.

Tabloid journalism generates hype to generate money.

Managers who believe the hype of a flat world do so at their own risk.

Some measures could be used to hype companies, he suggests.

Hardly a week went by without a new joint venture or product launch that needed professional hype.

When the hype surrounding an impending opening of a restaurant goes on too long, the expectations can be impossible to meet.

Well, either that or has bought into the hype about how diversity in all its forms are a valued part of the academy.

And no one seemed interested in the latest hype about shoe design, or shoes as fashion.

The hype is huge, and the findings are somewhat disturbing--but the future of online dating looks good.

The push hype managed to kill good companies that were sticking with the basics".

But all the hype seems to be about the adults reading.

Don't really understand why this hype and controversy is created by some scholars.

It's an industry in transition, hoping to surge its way past the iPhone's frothing wake of hype into the new year.

The seller would not even allow prior examination, he expected the hype to drive up prices.

It could be hype by an author hoping to sell books.

My mother said she couldn't understand what all the hype about menopause was.

But remember where the hype is coming from- the people whose careers and bank accounts depend on the continuance of animal.

Hype notwithstanding, crowdsourcing hasn't yielded more than a few viable businesses in the last few years.

These secondary-market prices feed hype about what these firms might be worth, were they to list on the stockmarket.

Forget the big myth and hype about rising sea levels.

The company built its reputation not on hype but on delivering tools designed by professionals.

But if the researcher didn't hype the results it would be his last study funded by the drug company.

Unscientific comments only worsen consumer anxiety and add to news media hype.

But some surgeons believe that the product doesn't live up to the hype.

One is mobile-data services, a market that is finally taking off after years of hype.

The hype and promotion of corn-based ethanol is a barrier to developing other renewable fuel resources.

The operators have been trying to justify this spectacular gamble with a torrent of hype.

Anything can be hypothesized, but not all hype is proven to be true or even possible.

Hype is an occupational hazard of anti-ageing research.

The unreasonable part is the hype around these meetings.

And despite all the hype about new entrepreneurs, they have had a mediocre decade.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun Slang.

a hypodermic needle.

a drug addict, especially one who uses a hypodermic needle.

Origin:
shortening of hypodermic; compare hypo¹

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Collins

World English Dictionary

hype¹ (haɪp)

—n
1.	a hypodermic needle or injection

—vb (usually foll by up)
2.	to inject oneself with a drug
3.	(tr) to stimulate artificially or excite

[C20: shortened from hypodermic]

hype² (haɪp)

—n
1.	a deception or racket
2.	intensive or exaggerated publicity or sales promotion: media hype
3.	the person or thing so publicized

—vb
4.	to market or promote (a product) using exaggerated or intensive publicity
5.	to falsify or rig (something)
6.	(in the pop-music business) to buy (copies of a particular record) in such quantity as to increase its ratings in the charts

[C20: of unknown origin]

'hyper²

—n

'hyping²

—n

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Word Origin & History

hype

"excessive or misleading publicity or advertising," 1967, Amer.Eng. (the verb is attested from 1937), probably in part a back-formation of hyperbole, but also from underworld slang sense "swindle by overcharging or short-changing" (1926), a back-formation of hyper "short-change con man" (1914), from

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prefix hyper- meaning "over, to excess." Also possibly influenced by drug addicts' slang hype, 1913 shortening of hypodermic needle. In early 18c., hyp "morbid depression of the spirits" was colloquial for hypochondria (usually as the hyp or the hyps).

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Slang Dictionary

hype definition

[hɑɪp]

n.
publicity; sales propaganda; promotion, especially if blatant and aggressive. : There was so much hype before the picture was released that the picture itself was a letdown.
tv.
to publicize or promote someone or something aggressively; to overpraise someone or something. : Let's hype it until everyone in the country has heard about it.
n.
and hipe. a hypodermic syringe and needle. (Drugs.) : She forgot to clean the hype.
n.
an injection of drugs. (Drugs.) : Ernie needed a hype real bad.
n.
a drug addict who injects drugs. (Drugs.) : The hypes have a rough time in prison.
mod.
really good; excellent. : Now this is a truly hype pizza!

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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