Meaning & use

gyp

verb·Everyday

To cheat or swindle someone out of money or something of value.

See it in a sentence

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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