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Verb
/jip/,
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gypped, past participle; gyps, 3rd person singular present; gypping, present participle; gypped, past tense;
  1. Cheat or swindle (someone)
    • - that's salesmanship, you have to gyp people into buying stuff they don't like
Noun
  1. A college servant at the Universities of Cambridge and Durham

  1. bunco: a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
  2. victimize: deprive of by deceit; "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"
  3. (gyps) a genus of Accipitridae
  4. The Gyps vultures are a genus of Old World vultures in the bird family Accipitridae, which also includes eagles, kites, buzzards and hawks.
  5. A cheat or swindle; a rip-off; A college servant; gypsophila; Pain or discomfort; To cheat or swindle someone of something inappropriately; to play hooky, truant or skive
  6. A personal servant to College residents. Each gyp typically worked for all the occupants of a staircase. The institution has long since died out. However the term gyp-room remains for mini-kitchens shared by students.
  7. A female dog - term used especially in the south.
  8. college servant especially one attending undergraduates
  9. 1. trick or deceive, particularly in business dealings; hoodwink. This slang term comes from the Diggers stationed in Egypt during WWI, who were often deceived as to the value of the trinkets they purchased.
  10. v. 1. To steal; to weaken or disorient in a malicious manner
  11. University of Cambridge term for a college servant, the equivalent term at Oxford is a 'scout'.
  12. A Poker crook or cheat.
  13. to cheat (from gypsy)