gyp
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[edit] English
[edit] Alternative forms
gip, jip (eye dialect spelling)
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Etymology
The various senses may have different etymological origin.
In the sense “swindle”, may have derived from gypsy (“Roma”), via stereotype of Roma as swindles, although no direct evidence exists. Compare jew (“defraud”), from Jew, and welsh (“swindle by defaulting on a debt”), from Welsh.
[edit] Noun
gyp (plural gyps)
- A cheat or swindle; a rip-off.
- Why do we have to buy this new edition of the textbook when there’s almost no difference between it and the previous one? What a gyp!
- (Cambridge and Durham, England) A college servant.
- gypsophila.
- Pain or discomfort.
- My back's giving me gyp.
[edit] Verb
gyp (third-person singular simple present gyps, present participle gypping, simple past and past participle gypped)
- (considered pejorative by some) To cheat or swindle someone of something inappropriately.
- The cab driver gypped me out of ten bucks by taking the longer route.
- (Wichita, Kansas, USA vicinity) to play hooky, truant or skive
- He gypped school today.
[edit] References
- Gyp: Thieve, World Wide Words
- Etymology of "Gyp" / "gypped", Vocaboly.com
