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hype
noun- a syringe US, 1910
- They pulled out two spikes, laid out two hypes/ And rolled some one-dollar-bill gees. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 56, 1976
- On the wall alongside Randy’s head was a starburst of rust-brown dots where someone had booted the blood from their hype. — Richard Price, Clockers, p. 232, 1992
- a needle-using drug addict US, 1924
- This is not a queer bar–it is an outcast bar–Negroes and vagrant whites, heads and hypes, dikes and queens. — John Rechy, City of Night, p. 184, 1963
- The one thing that broke me out of the big bind in the restaurant winds up in a hype’s pocket and I’m worse off than I ever was. — Mickey Spillane, Return of the Hood, p. 88, 1964
- He’s a hype but he is very down with the current scene. — Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice (letter dated 19th September, 1965), p. 46, 1968
- He was a “hype” even then. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 99, 1969
- I discovered I was working someone else’s territory, or when I was held up at knife point and told to give up my junk or get cut, or the various hypes I’d be subjected to. — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, p. 138, 1980
- A bunch of strung-out hypes and stick-up men. — Gone in 60 Seconds, 2000
- a frequent user of marijuana US
Use of the term “addict” is controversial in the context of marijuana users, but the suggestion here is that the person has let marijuana control his life. - — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 4, Spring 1999
- exaggeration, nonsense US, 1938
- But that Danny laid down a super hype, and blow my nose and call me Snorty if we didn’t wind up with him giving notice to the Goldkette office[.] — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 129, 1946
- They pick up on each bopster’s hype just like a simple child. — Dan Burley, Diggeth Thou?, p. 34, 1959
- deception; an act of deception; something intended to stimulate sales, etc US, 1955
- Most PR hypes are crass, and the Poor Little Rich Girl hype is the crassest of the lot. — New Society, 20 December 1979
- a swindle or cheat US
- — Joe McKennon, Circus Lingo, p. 50, 1980
▶ put the hype on
to raise prices because of demand without regard to fairness of the price US- — Joe McKennon, Circus Lingo, p. 73, 1980
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