Usually means: Deceive or cheat someone financially.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. gyp: Merriam-Webster
  2. gyp, gyp, gyp: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gyp: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gyp: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gyp: Vocabulary.com
  6. gyp: Wordnik
  7. gyp: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gyp: Wiktionary
  9. gyp: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gyp (gip): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gyp: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gyp, gyp: Dictionary.com
  13. gyp: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gyp: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. GYP (software), GYP: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gyp: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gyp: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gyp: Rhymezone
  19. Gyp: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. Gyp: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. gyp: FreeDictionary.org
  22. gyp: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. gyp: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Gyp (cheat), Gyp (pain): World Wide Words
  25. gyp: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. gyp: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gyp-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gyp: Legal dictionary
  2. gyp: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gyp: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gyp: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. GYP, GYP, GYP: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. GYP: Acronym Finder
  3. gyp: A Word A Day
  4. GYP: Three Letter Words with definitions
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. gyp: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gyp, gyp, gyp, gyp, gyp: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. gyp: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

(Note: See gyping as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (derogatory, sometimes offensive) A cheat or swindle; a rip-off.
noun:  Synonym of gypsy (“contra dance step”)
verb:  (derogatory, sometimes offensive) To cheat or swindle.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (Cambridge University, Durham University) The room in which such college servants work.
noun:  (Cambridge University, Durham University) A small kitchen for use by college students.
noun:  Gypsophila.
noun:  Pain or discomfort.

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