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hype

1  [hahyp] verb, hyped, hyp⋅ing, noun Informal.
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–verb (used with object)
1. to stimulate, excite, or agitate (usually fol. by up): She was hyped up at the thought of owning her own car.
2. to create interest in by flamboyant or dramatic methods; promote or publicize showily: a promoter who knows how to hype a prizefight.
3. to intensify (advertising, promotion, or publicity) by ingenious or questionable claims, methods, etc. (usually fol. by up).
4. to trick; gull.
–noun
5. exaggerated publicity; hoopla.
6. an ingenious or questionable claim, method, etc., used in advertising, promotion, or publicity to intensify the effect.
7. a swindle, deception, or trick.
Origin:
1925–30, Americanism; in sense “to trick, swindle,” of uncert. orig.; subsequent senses perh. by reanalysis as a shortening of hyperbole
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hype 1   (hīp)   
n.  

  1. Excessive publicity and the ensuing commotion: the hype surrounding the murder trial.

  2. Exaggerated or extravagant claims made especially in advertising or promotional material: "It is pure hype, a gigantic PR job" (Saturday Review).

  3. An advertising or promotional ploy: "Some restaurant owners in town are cooking up a $75,000 hype to promote New York as 'Restaurant City, U.S.A.'" (New York).

  4. Something deliberately misleading; a deception: "[He] says that there isn't any energy crisis at all, that it's all a hype, to maintain outrageous profits for the oil companies" (Joel Oppenheimer).

tr.v.   hyped, hyp·ing, hypes
To publicize or promote, especially by extravagant, inflated, or misleading claims: hyped the new book by sending its author on a promotional tour.

[Partly from hype, a swindle (perhaps from hyper-) and partly from hype(rbole).]
hype 2   (hīp)   
n.  

  1. A hypodermic injection, syringe, or needle.

  2. A drug addict.

tr.v.   hyped, hyp·ing, hypes
To stimulate with or as if with a hypodermic injection: "hyped the country up to a purposeless pitch" (Newsweek).

[Shortening and alteration of hypodermic.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Slang Dictionary
hype [hɑɪp]

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. n.
    and hipe. a hypodermic syringe and needle. (Drugs.) : She forgot to clean the hype.
  4. n.
    an injection of drugs. (Drugs.) : Ernie needed a hype real bad.
  5. n.
    a drug addict who injects drugs. (Drugs.) : The hypes have a rough time in prison.
  6. 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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hyped (up)

  1. mod.
    excited; stimulated. : She said she had to get hyped before the tennis match.
  2. mod.
    contrived; heavily promoted; falsely advertised. : I just won't pay good money to see these hyped up movies.
  3. mod.
    drug intoxicated. (Drugs.) : Here comes another hyped up musician.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

hype  (n.)
"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 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).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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