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Raregyp
The correct spelling is gyp.
How to pronounce gyp
/d͡ʒɪp/
nounIPA: /d͡ʒɪp/
Say it like: Jyp
The correct spelling is gyp. (sometimes offensive) A member of the Romani people, or one of the sub-groups (Roma, Sinti, Romanichal, etc). For example: "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!"
Usage Examples
“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.”
“My back's giving me gyp.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.(sometimes offensive) A member of the Romani people, or one of the sub-groups (Roma, Sinti, Romanichal, etc).
- 2.(sometimes offensive) A cheat or swindle; a rip-off.
- 3.An itinerant person or any person, not necessarily Romani; a tinker, a traveller or a carny.
- 4.(sometimes offensive) A move in contra dancing in which two dancers walk in a circle around each other while maintaining eye contact (but not touching as in a swing). (Compare whole gyp, half gyp, and gypsy meltdown, in which this step precedes a swing.)
- 5.A member of a Broadway musical chorus line.
verb
- 1.(sometimes offensive) To cheat or swindle someone or something inappropriately.
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