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

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley