Definitions for gyp

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Spelling: [jip]

IPA: /dʒɪp/

Gyp is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 8 anagrams from letters in gyp (gpy).

Definitions for gyp

noun

1. Informal: Sometimes Offensive. a swindle or fraud.
2. Also, gypper [jip-er] /ˈdʒɪp ər/ (Show IPA), gypster. Informal: Sometimes Offensive. a swindler or cheat.
3. Also called gypsy. an owner of racehorses who also acts as trainer and jockey.
4. a male college servant, as at Cambridge and Durham.

verb (used with or without object)

1. Informal: Sometimes Offensive. to defraud or rob by some sharp practice; swindle; cheat.

Origin of gyp

1885-90, Americanism; back formation from Gypsy

Examples for gyp

And there was gyp smiling and beckoning her to an empty desk beside her.

Jerry declared, of course, that gyp's suggestion was "wonderful."

gyp and Tibby went upstairs with her; Graham disappeared with Pepperpot.

gyp had yelled with the others, so had Ginny Cox, who had come back into the room.

"The poor old man," Jerry said so feelingly that gyp stared at her.

gyp had passed beyond the age when Graham's teasing could disturb her.

gyp's tone asked, rather: "What in the world have you found to do?"

She had not laid eyes on gyp after that one fleeting glimpse on the stairs.

"And gyp's things muss my room so," cried Tibby, plaintively.

"Isn't it funny," mused gyp as she balanced on the footboard of her bed.