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gyp

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Noun, Verb (usu participle)

CIDE DICTIONARY

gypn. [Said to be a sportive application of Gr. gy`ps a vulture.].
     A college servant; -- so called in Cambridge, England; at Oxford called a scout.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

gyp, n. Brit. colloq.
1 pain or severe discomfort.
2 a scolding (gave them gyp).

gyp, n. Brit. a college servant at Cambridge and Durham.

gyp, v. & n. sl.
--v.tr. (gypped, gypping) cheat, swindle.
--n. an act of cheating; a swindle.

Etymology
19th c.: perh. f. GYP(2)

THESAURUS

gyp

Partlet, Seeing Eye dog, 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, peahen, phony, pigeon, pooch, practice fraud upon, pup, puppy, racket, roe, rook, scam, screw, sell, sell gold bricks, sharper, shave, she-bear, she-goat, she-lion, sheep dog, 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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