Associations to the word «Gyp»

Wiktionary

GYP, noun. (pejorative) (sometimes offensive) A cheat or swindle; a rip-off.
GYP, verb. (pejorative) (sometimes offensive) To cheat or swindle someone of something inappropriately.
GYP, noun. (Cambridge and Durham, England) A college servant.
GYP, noun. (Cambridge and Durham, England) The room in which such college servants work.
GYP, noun. (Cambridge and Durham, England) A small kitchen for use by college students.
GYP, noun. Gypsophila.
GYP, noun. Pain or discomfort.

Dictionary definition

GYP, noun. A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property.
GYP, verb. 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".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope