'Gyp' definitions:
Definition of 'gyp'
(from WordNet)
noun
A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property [syn: bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting, flimflam]
verb
Definition of 'Gyp'
From: GCIDE
- Gyp \Gyp\ (j[i^]p), n. [Said to be a sportive application of Gr. gy`ps a vulture.] A college servant; -- so called in Cambridge, England; at Oxford called a scout. [Cant] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'gyp'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ballot-box stuffing,
- bandog,
- beat,
- beguile of,
- biddy,
- bilk,
- bitch,
- bossy,
- bowwow,
- brood mare,
- bunco,
- burn,
- canine,
- cardsharping,
- cheat,
- cheating,
- chisel,
- chouse,
- chouse out of,
- cog,
- cog the dice,
- con,
- con man,
- cow,
- cozen,
- cozenage,
- crib,
- defraud,
- defrauder,
- diddle,
- diddler,
- diddling,
- dishonesty,
- do,
- do in,
- do out of,
- dodge,
- doe,
- dog,
- double-dealer,
- euchre,
- ewe,
- ewe lamb,
- fake,
- fancy dog,
- filly,
- finagle,
- fishy transaction,
- flam,
- fleece,
- flimflam,
- flimflammer,
- fob,
- fraud,
- fraudulence,
- fraudulency,
- fudge,
- gerrymandering,
- gouge,
- graft,
- grift,
- guide dog,
- guinea hen,
- gull,
- gyp joint,
- have,
- heifer,
- hen,
- hind,
- hoax,
- hocus,
- hocus-pocus,
- humbug,
- illicit business,
- imposition,
- imposture,
- jenny,
- kennel,
- lap dog,
- lioness,
- mare,
- mountebank,
- mulct,
- nanny,
- nanny goat,
- overreach,
- pack of dogs,
- pack the deal,
- Partlet,
- peahen,
- phony,
- pigeon,
- pooch,
- practice fraud upon,
- pup,
- puppy,
- racket,
- roe,
- rook,
- scam,
- screw,
- Seeing Eye dog,
- sell,
- sell gold bricks,
- sharper,
- shave,
- she-bear,
- she-goat,
- she-lion,
- sheep dog,
- shortchange,
- show dog,
- sled dog,
- slut,
- sow,
- spoof,
- stack the cards,
- stick,
- sting,
- swindle,
- take a dive,
- thimblerig,
- throw a fight,
- tigress,
- toy dog,
- trickster,
- victimize,
- vixen,
- watchdog,
- whelp,
- working dog