hype

• POS: Noun, Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

hype, n. [Etym. uncertain.].

 A throw in which the wrestler lifts his opponent from the ground, swings him to one side, knocks up his nearer thigh from the back with the knee, and throws him on his back.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

hype, n. & v. sl.
--n.
1 extravagant or intensive publicity promotion.
2 cheating; a trick.
--v.tr.
1 promote (a product) with extravagant publicity.
2 cheat, trick.

hype, n. sl.
1 a drug addict.
2 a hypodermic needle or injection.

Idiom

hyped up stimulated by or as if by a hypodermic injection.

Etymology

abbr. of HYPODERMIC

THESAURUS

hype

LSD user, acidhead, acknowledgment, addict, advocate, alcoholic, appreciation, back, blurb, boost, buildup, chain smoker, cocaine sniffer, cokie, commend, commendation, cry up, cubehead, dipsomaniac, dope fiend, doper, drug abuser, drug addict, drug user, drunkard, fiend, freak, glue sniffer, good word, habitual, head, heavy smoker, honorable mention, hophead, junkie, marijuana smoker, methhead, narcotics addict, pillhead, plug, pothead, promote, promotion, puff, recognition, recommend, snowbird, speak highly of, speak warmly of, speak well of, speed freak, support, tout, tripper, user

ROGET THESAURUS

hype

Publication

N publication, public announcement, promulgation, propagation, proclamation, pronunziamento, circulation, indiction, edition, hue and cry, publicity, notoriety, currency, flagrancy, cry, bruit, hype, vox populi, report, the Press, public press, newspaper, journal, gazette, daily, telegraphy, publisher, imprint, circular, circular letter, manifesto, advertisement, ad, placard, bill, affiche, broadside, poster, notice, published, current, in circulation, public, notorious, flagrant, arrant, open, trumpet-tongued, encyclical, encyclic, promulgatory, exoteric, publicly, in open court, with open doors, Int, Oyez!, O yes!, notice!, notice is hereby given, this is to give, these are to give notice, nomina stultorum parietibus haerent, semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum.