gyp : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: gyp	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for gyp
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gyp n a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property Synonym(s): bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting, flimflam v 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" Synonym(s): victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gyp \Gyp\, n. [Said to be a sportive application of Gr. [?] a vulture.] A college servant; -- so called in Cambridge, England; at Oxford called a scout. [Cant]