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gyp

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
GYP ( G enerate Y our P rojects) is a build automation tool. GYP is created by Google to generate native IDE project files (such as Visual Studio and Xcode ) for building the Chromium web browser and is licensed as open source software using the BSD software ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to cheat, swindle," 1889, American English, probably derived from the colloquial shortening of Gypsy (compare gip ). Related: Gypped . As a noun, "fraudulent action, a cheat," by 1914.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 alt. (context pejorative sometimes offensive English) A cheat or swindle; a rip-off. n. (context pejorative sometimes offensive English) A cheat or swindle; a rip-off. vb. (context pejorative sometimes offensive English) To cheat or swindle ...

Usage examples of gyp.

Mrs Biggs straightened up and went through to the gyp room to make coffee while Zipser shifted feebly in the chair.

Coming in from a ride, a week after she had sat with Winton under the Schiller statue, Gyp found on her dressing-table a bunch of Gloire de Dijon and La France roses.

In her bodice at dinner, and to the concert after, Gyp wore one La France and one Gloire de Dijon--a daring mixture of pink and orange against her oyster-coloured frock, which delighted her, who had a passion for experiments in colour.

Why should we Talents protect a quacksalver, a faker, a pharisee, a hoaxer, a gyp!

No one had reported Gyp as having been at the Club Cadiz on the night of slaughter.

As the weather was still cold, the farmer put them upstairs in one of the barns, and every day Gyp would take seven or eight of those cats up there to see the fluffy little things.

The Shadow had simply been a come-on, to make Marge express the sentiments that Gypper was sure she actually felt.

She merely named the hotel where Gypper had told her to stop over night.

IT was a long ride to the hotel, for Gypper had chosen one well remote from his own.

Along with the wad of big bills that she had received from Gypper, Marge had a few last dollars of her own.

Although a gruff voice had done the talking over the telephone, it was Gypper who was managing the trap.

When she opened it, she found Gypper and two others waiting in a room that was illuminated by a single light.

UPSTAIRS, Gypper was staring at a tiny light that glimmered from a wall.

Slowly, it described a semicircle, while Gypper and his followers traced the gleam with gloating eyes.

Then it was Gypper who mouthed an oath of disappointment, that was echoed by the snarling voices of his gunners.