Meaning of GYP
| Pronunciation: | | jip
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- [n] a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
- [v] 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"
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| | Synonyms: | | bunco, bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, defraud, diddle, flimflam, goldbrick, hustle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, sting, swindle, victimize |
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| | See Also: | | beat, cheat, cheat, chisel, rig, rip off, short, short-change, swindle | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Gyp\, n. [Said to be a sportive application of Gr. ? a
vulture.]
A college servant; -- so called in Cambridge, England; at
Oxford called a scout. [Cant]
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| | Related Terms: | | ballot-box stuffing, bandog, beat, beguile of, biddy, bilk, bitch, bossy, bowwow, brood mare, bunco, burn, canine, cardsharping, cheat, cheating, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, cog, cog the dice, con, con man, cow, cozen, cozenage, crib, defraud, defrauder, diddle, diddler, diddling, dishonesty, do, do in, do out of, dodge, doe, dog, double-dealer, euchre, ewe, ewe lamb, fake, fancy dog, filly, finagle, fishy transaction, flam, fleece, flimflam, flimflammer, fob, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, fudge, gerrymandering, gouge, graft, grift, guide dog, guinea hen, gull, gyp joint, have, heifer, hen, hind, hoax, hocus, hocus-pocus, humbug, illicit business, imposition, imposture, jenny, kennel, lap dog, lioness, mare, mountebank, mulct, nanny, nanny goat, overreach, pack of dogs, pack the deal, Partlet, peahen, phony, pigeon, pooch, practice fraud upon, pup, puppy, racket, roe, rook, scam, screw, Seeing Eye dog, sell, sell gold bricks, sharper, shave, she-bear, sheep dog, she-goat, she-lion, shortchange, show dog, sled dog, slut, sow, spoof, stack the cards, stick, sting, swindle, take a dive, thimblerig, throw a fight, tigress, toy dog, trickster, victimize, vixen, watchdog, whelp, working dog |
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