Definition of "gyp" in İngilizce

noun

1. (derogatory, sometimes offensive) A cheat or swindle; a rip-off.

   • 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!

2. Synonym of gypsy (“contra dance step”).

verb

1. (derogatory, sometimes offensive) To cheat or swindle.

   • 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.

noun

1. (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.

   • Had he acted discourteously to his bedmaker or his gyp, he would have minded just as much … .

2. (Cambridge University, Durham University) The room in which such college servants work.

3. (Cambridge University, Durham University) A small kitchen for use by college students.

noun

1. Gypsophila.

noun

1. Pain or discomfort.

   • My back's giving me gyp.