gyp

Definition of Gyp in English :

Noun

1. bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, gyp, hustle, sting

a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

Verb

2. bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize

deprive of by deceit

Example Sentences:
'He swindled me out of my inheritance'
'She defrauded the customers who trusted her'
'the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Gyp

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verbWord forms: gyps, gypping, gypped, gips, gipping or gipped

1. (transitive)

to swindle, cheat, or defraud

noun

2.

an act of cheating

3.

a person who gyps

noun

British and New Zealand slang

severe pain; torture

his arthritis gave him gyp

noun

a college servant at the universities of Cambridge and Durham

Compare scout1 (sense 5)

Gyp

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noun Informal

1.

an act of cheating; swindle; fraud

2.

a swindler

: also ˈgypper, ˈgypster

verb transitive, verb intransitiveWord forms: gypped or ˈgypping

3. Informal

to swindle; cheat

noun British

a male servant at a college, esp. at Cambridge

Gyp

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tr.v. gypped, gyp·ping, gyps also gipped or gip·ping or gips

To deprive (another) of something by fraud; cheat or swindle.

n.

1. A fraud or swindle.

2. One who defrauds; a swindler.

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