gyp
1or gip
[ jip ]
/ dʒɪp /
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.
RELATED WORDS
trick, fleece, rook, scam, dupe, cheat, bilk, gull, hoodwink, flimflam, stick, bamboozle, deceive, hustle, defraud, swindle, gip
Nearby words
- gynophore,
- gynoplastics,
- gynostegium,
- gynostemium,
- gyoza,
- gyp joint,
- gyp-room,
- gyplure,
- gypo,
- gypper
Origin of gyp
1Usage 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.
gyp
2[ jip ]
/ dʒɪp /
noun British Informal.
a male college servant, as at Cambridge and Durham.
Origin of gyp
2First recorded in 1740–50; perhaps from Gypsy
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gyp
1gip
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
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
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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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.
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