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gyp

/jip/US // dʒɪp //UK // (dʒɪp) //

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Definitions

  1. 1

    gypped, gyp·ping.

    • : Informal: Offensive. to defraud or rob by some sharp practice; swindle; cheat.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Informal: Offensive. a swindle or fraud.
    • : Also gyp·per [jip-er], /ˈdʒɪp ər/, gyp·ster [jip-ster] /ˈdʒɪp stər/ .Informal: Offensive. a swindler or cheat.
    • : Also called gypsy . an owner of racehorses who also acts as trainer and jockey.

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Examples

  • Away they went, with Gyp at their heels, and every footstep resounded through the old house until they reached the upper floor.

  • An English, an American Gyp would typographically offend, and that would be the end of her.

  • It was kept by his old college gyp, a man of discreet silence, who was admirably partnered by an excellent cook.

  • Had he acted discourteously to his bedmaker or his gyp, he would have minded just as much, which was not polite of him.

  • Her age was seventeen, and she dressed after Carmen to please herself, and read Gyp with the same intention.