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[jip] /dʒɪp/

verb (used with or without object), gipped, gipping, noun
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[jip] /dʒɪp/
verb (used with or without object), gypped, gypping.
1.
Informal: Sometimes Offensive. to defraud or rob by some sharp practice; swindle; cheat.
noun
2.
Informal: Sometimes Offensive. a swindle or fraud.
3.
Also, gypper
[jip-er] /ˈdʒɪp ər/ (Show IPA), gypster. Informal: Sometimes Offensive. a swindler or cheat.
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Also called gypsy. an owner of racehorses who also acts as trainer and jockey.
/dʒɪp/
verb gips, gipping, gipped
1.
a variant spelling of gyp1
2.
(Northern English, informal) to vomit or feel like vomiting
noun
3.
a variant spelling of gyp2
/dʒɪp/
verb gyps, gypping, gypped, gips, gipping, gipped
1.
(transitive) to swindle, cheat, or defraud
noun
2.
an act of cheating
3.
a person who gyps
/dʒɪp/
noun
1.
(Brit & NZ, slang) severe pain; torture: his arthritis gave him gyp
/dʒɪp/
noun
1.
a college servant at the universities of Cambridge and Durham Compare scout1 (sense 5)

attested from 1840 as an abbreviation of gypsy (q.v.). Also see gyp. Related: Gipped; gipping.
v.

“to cheat, swindle,” 1889, American English, probably derived from the colloquial shortening of Gypsy (cf. gip). Related: Gypped. As a noun, “fraudulent action, a cheat,” by 1914.

GIP abbr.
gastric inhibitory polypeptide

Related Terms

gyp

modifier

: a gyp joint/ gyp terms

noun

verb

To cheat; swindle; con: We got gypped out of it all in two days

[fr gypsy]

1. General Interpretive Programme.
A 1956 interpreted language for the English Electric DEUCE, with array operations and an extensive library of numerical methods.
[“Interpretive and Brick Schemes, with Special Reference to Matrix Operations”, English Electric COmpany, DEUCE News No. 10 (1956)].
(1994-11-02)
2. An erroneous singular of GIPS.
1.
gastric inhibitory polypeptide
2.
gastric inhibitory peptide
3.
Gibraltar-pound (currency)