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hype verb- to lie, to swindle US, 1914
- I’d be the last guy in the world to try and hype a Pachuco. — Thurston Scott, Cure it with Honey, p. 33, 1951
- No hustler could have it known that he’d been “hyped,” meaning outsmarted or made a fool of. — Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 127, 1964
- to stimulate interest or sales US, 1942
- Traditionally, the methods they [the record industry] used were called hyping rather than cheating. — Simon Napier-Bell, Black Vinyl White Powder, p. 324, 2001
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