gip

[jip]

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verb (used with or without object), gipped, gip·ping, noun

gyp¹.

Related formsgip·per, noun

gyp

or gip

[jip]

verb (used with or without object), gypped, gyp·ping.

Informal: Sometimes Offensive. to defraud or rob by some sharp practice; swindle; cheat.

noun

Informal: Sometimes Offensive. a swindle or fraud.

Also gyp·per

[jip-er] /ˈdʒɪp ər/, gypster. Informal: Sometimes Offensive. a swindler or cheat.

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

Origin of gyp

1885–90, Americanism; back formation from Gypsy

Usage note

Gyp in the meanings “to swindle” or “a person who swindles” is sometimes perceived as insulting to or by Gypsies, since it stereotypes them as swindlers. However, gyp has apparently never been used as a deliberate ethnic slur, and many people are unaware that it is derived from Gypsy.

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Related Words for gip

fool, shaft, fleece, hose, scam, dupe, cheat, rook, burn, gull, trick, gyp, chisel, steal, con, sandbag, bilk, hoodwink, flimflam, stick

Examples from the Web for gip

Historical Examples of gip

Her only doll had been a "rag baby," and Gip, the dog, had demolished that.
A Little Girl in Old New York
Amanda Millie Douglas
He caught up the ax in his 34 left hand and chopped away, Gip, gop!
Tales of Folk and Fairies
Katharine Pyle
I glanced at Gip, but Gip was looking at a magic rocking-horse.
Twelve Stories and a Dream
H. G. Wells
Gip made no answer, but his grip tightened on my finger, and so we came into the shop.
Twelve Stories and a Dream
H. G. Wells
I said, "How would you like your soldiers to come alive, Gip, and march about by themselves?"
Twelve Stories and a Dream
H. G. Wells

British Dictionary definitions for gip

gip

verb gips, gipping or gipped

a variant spelling of gyp 1

Northern English informal to vomit or feel like vomiting

noun

a variant spelling of gyp 2

gyp

gip

slang

verb gyps, gypping, gypped, gips, gipping or gipped

(tr) to swindle, cheat, or defraud

noun

an act of cheating

a person who gyps

Word Origin for gyp

C18: back formation from Gypsy

gyp

noun

British and NZ slang severe pain; torturehis arthritis gave him gyp

Word Origin for gyp

C19: probably a contraction of gee up!; see gee 1

gyp

noun

a college servant at the universities of Cambridge and DurhamCompare scout 1 (def. 5)

Word Origin for gyp

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

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Word Origin and History for gip

attested from 1840 as an abbreviation of gypsy (q.v.). Also see gyp. Related: Gipped; gipping.

gyp

"to cheat, swindle," 1889, American English, probably derived from the colloquial shortening of Gypsy (cf. gip). Related: Gypped. As a noun, "fraudulent action, a cheat," by 1914.

gip in Medicine

GIP

abbr.

gastric inhibitory polypeptide