GYP (gypped, gypping)
Dictionary entry overview: What does gyp mean?
• GYP (noun)
The noun GYP has 1 sense:
1. a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
Familiarity information: GYP used as a noun is very rare.
• GYP (verb)
The verb GYP has 1 sense:
1. deprive of by deceit
Familiarity information: GYP used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GYP (noun)
Meaning:
A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
bunco; hustle; gyp; flimflam; confidence trick; confidence game; con game; bunko game; bunko; bunco game; con; sting
Hypernyms ("gyp" is a kind of...):
cheat; rig; swindle (the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gyp"):
sting operation (a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals))
• GYP (verb)
Meaning:
Deprive of by deceit
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
mulct; nobble; rook; scam; swindle; hornswoggle; gyp; goldbrick; gip; diddle; defraud; con; bunco; short-change; victimize
Context examples:
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
Hypernyms (to "gyp" is one way to...):
cheat; chisel; rip off (deprive somebody of something by deceit)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "gyp"):
short; short-change (cheat someone by not returning him enough money)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Sentence example:
They gyp him of all his money
