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gyp; gip
noun- someone or something that is considered a cheat; someone who does not honour debts and obligations US, 1859
Abbreviated from “gypsy”; an unconsidered racial slur. Also spelled “gip”. - These gyps (and there are plenty of them still operating) prey on the vanity of out-of-town visitors[.] — Dev Collans with Stewart Sterling, I was a House Detective, p. 135, 1954
- Before Bissel can apply his breakthrough on a global scale [in the movie I Was a Teenage Werewolf, though, the ungrateful punk tears his throat out. Regular Freudian gyp. — Uncut, p. 22, February 2002
- in horse racing, someone who owns only a few horses US, 1938
An abbreviation of “gypsy”; not derogatory. - — Mel Heimer, Inside Racing, p. 211, 1962
- in oil drilling, gypsum US
- — Jerry Robertson, Oil Slanguage, p. 63, 1954
- pain, actual or figurative UK, 1910
Also “jyp”. - He’d hurt his back parachuting a few months before, and it was still giving him gyp. — Chris Ryan, Stand By, Stand By, p. 94, 1996
- I’ve a dishwasher – Hotpoint – on the blink, making noises, generally playing up and giving me gyp. — Jenny Eclair, Camberwell Beauty, p. 209, 2000
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