gyp
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(derogatory, offensive, sometimes)(derogatory, sometimes offensive) A cheat or swindle; a rip-off.
Why do we have to buy this new edition of the textbook when there’s almost no difference between it and the previous one? What a gyp!
- 2.
Synonym of gypsy (“contra dance step”).
Đồng nghĩa: gypsy
- 3.
(historical)(Cambridge University, Durham University, historical) A domestic servant, generally male, who would attend upon (usually several) students, brushing their clothes, carrying parcels, waiting at parties and other tasks; generally equivalent to a scout in the historical sense at Oxford University or a skip at Trinity College, Dublin.
Had he acted discourteously to his bedmaker or his gyp, he would have minded just as much … .
- 4.
(Cambridge University, Durham University) The room in which such college servants work.
- 5.
(Cambridge University, Durham University) A small kitchen for use by college students.
- 6.
Gypsophila.
- 7.
Pain or discomfort.
My back's giving me gyp.
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verb- 1.
(derogatory, offensive, sometimes)(derogatory, sometimes offensive) To cheat or swindle.
The cab driver gypped me out of ten bucks by taking the longer route.
You better watch out; they'll try to gyp you if you don't know what you're doing.
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Perhaps from the term gypsy (Roma), due to a stereotype of the Roma as swindlers. Compare jew (defraud), from Jew, and welsh (swindle by defaulting on a debt), from Welsh. Could also be derived from dupe, with the same pattern (yod coalescence) as idiot becomes eejit in Scottish English.