gyp

Plural: gyps

Noun

• a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
• A cheat or swindle; a rip-off.
• Synonym of gypsy (“contra dance step”).
• A domestic servant, generally male, who would attend upon (usually several) students, brushing their clothes, carrying parcels, waiting at parties and other tasks; generally equivalent to a scout in the historical sense at Oxford University or a skip at Trinity College, Dublin.
• The room in which such college servants work.
• A small kitchen for use by college students.
• Gypsophila.
• Pain or discomfort.

Verb

Verb Forms: gypped, gypping, gyps

• To cheat or swindle someone; to defraud.
• deprive of by deceit
  • "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"
• To cheat or swindle.

Examples

• It felt like a gyp when his opponent challenged his valid word, losing a turn.
• My back's giving me gyp.
• The cab driver gypped me out of ten bucks by taking the longer route.
• 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!
• You better watch out; they'll try to gyp you if you don't know what you're doing.

Synonyms

bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, defraud, diddle, flimflam, gip, goldbrick, hornswoggle, hustle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, sting, swindle, victimize, gypsy

Related Words

jew down, welsh

Anagrams of gyp