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3 lettersPronunciation /d͡ʒɪp/Part of speech noun, verbSorted gpyStarts with GEnds with P0 clues
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Definitions

  1. (sometimes offensive) an act of swindling or cheating

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • 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!
  • 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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