Meaning & use
gyp
To cheat or swindle someone out of money or something of value.
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He felt he'd been gypped after paying full price for a broken product.
The tourist realized too late that the vendor had gypped him on the exchange rate.
A note on using this word
Gyp is informal slang derived from a slur against the Romani people, and many speakers now avoid it for that reason.
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