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▪ I. gyp, n.1 (and a.)|dʒɪp|
Also 8 jip, 9 gip.
[perh. short for gipsy or for gippo1 2.]
1. a. At Cambridge and Durham, a college servant, esp. one who attends on one or more undergraduates. In the first quot. the meaning appears to be somewhat different.
1750Dodd Poems (1767) 31 No more the jolly Jips..carol out their songs. Note. Are an idle useful set of hangers on the college, who procure ale, pence &c., by running errands, and doing little services for their masters. 1799Spirit Publ. Jrnls. (1800) III. 216 The College Gyps, of high illustrious worth, With all the dishes in long order go. 1803Gradus ad Cantab. (1824) 128 To avoid..gate-bills he will be out at night as late as he pleases..climb over the College walls, and fee his Gyp well. 1805H. K. White in Rem. (1819) I. 209 My bed-maker, whom we call a gyp, from a Greek word signifying a vulture, runs away with everything he can lay his hands on. 1822Scott Nigel xvi, No scout in Oxford, no gip in Cambridge ever matched him in speed and intelligence. 1839–40Thackeray Catherine viii, I was a gyp at Cambridge. 1894Wilkins & Vivian Green Bay Tree I. 234 The spiritual destitution of bedmakers and gyps.
b. attrib. gyp-room, a room where the gyps keep table furniture, etc.
1871M. Legrand Camb. Freshm. 210 He fetched the..reviving beverage from the gyp-room. 1886Willis & Clark Cambridge I. 624 The cloister..was cut off to supply a gyp-room.
2. U.S. slang. A thief.
1889in Century Dict.
3. A fraudulent action; a swindle. Also as adj. Cf. gyp v. orig. U.S.
1914Jackson & Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 41 Gyp,..the act of short-changing; a defrauding by substitution; an action that belies a professed sincerity. 1930‘A. Armstrong’ Taxi xvi. 220 The non-combine cabs..are referred to as ‘gyp’ taxis, which implies mingled piracy and deceit. 1967Boston Sunday Globe 23 Apr. B61/2 Some are good, but gyps abound. Authorities report..phony practices.
▪ II. gyp, n.2 U.S.|dʒɪp|
[? Short for Gypsy, gipsy used as a proper name for a bitch.]
A bitch.
1878C. Hallock Amer. Club List & Sportsman's Gloss. p. v, Gyp, the young female pup. 1890J. Cooke in G. O. Shields Big Game N. Amer. 148 Old Tige had filled up on the first Deer's inwards. He looked like a gyp, and near her time. 1895A. Hunter in Outing (U.S.) XXVII. 75/2 One of the pack—a long-limbed gyp named Queen..covered with black pitch-like mud.
▪ III. gyp, n.3 dial. or colloq.|dʒɪp|
Also gip, jip.
[App. contraction of gee-up, which is used in dial. as n.]
to give (a person) gyp: to punish, thrash, treat roughly; to hurt, give pain.
1893Funk's Stand. Dict., To give one gyp, to make one smart for anything done. 1898in B. Kirkby Lakeland Words. 1902Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. Jip, Ah'll gi'e tha jip... ‘Ah gav' it jip Ah can tell tha,’ said of beating a carpet soundly with a stick in each hand. 1910‘G. B. Lancaster’ Jim of Ranges xi. 212 ‘Jim Kyneton's a good man, and this is giving him particular gyp if I know anything of good men,’ he [Jack West] said. 1915‘Boyd Cable’ Between Lines 19 We'll give 'em gyp if they try it. 1917P. MacGill Brown Brethren xii. 170 A cramp in my guts!..Gawd, it isn't 'arf giving me gyp! 1936Wodehouse Laughing Gas iv. 46 If you knew what gyp those shoes were giving me that night. 1966I. Jefferies House Surgeon viii. 155, I should think his tum is giving him gip.
▪ IV. gyp, v. orig. U.S.|dʒɪp|
Also gip.
[Cf. gyp n.1 3.]
To cheat, trick, swindle.
1889in Cent. Dict. 1914Jackson & Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 41 Gyp.., to flim-flam; to cheat by means of guile and manual dexterity... ‘Gyp this boob with a deuce.’ 1925F. Scott Fitzgerald Great Gatsby (1926) ii. 42 We had over twelve hundred dollars when we started, but we got gyped out of it all in two days. 1930D. Byrne Golden Goat xiii. 106 Dariano had gipped the Greek Government during the war of millions in contracts. 1932J. Dos Passos 1919 55 American dollars went pretty far if you knew enough not to let 'em gyp you. 1935Wodehouse Luck of Bodkins xiv. 156 A suspicion was growing with him that..he had been gypped. 1962Punch 28 Feb. 356/2 If he..thinks the conductor is trying to gyp him..he..need only look at the fares table. 1965R. Howard tr. S. de Beauvoir's Force of Circumstance 658 Turning an incredulous gaze toward that young and credulous girl, I realize with stupor how much I was gypped.
▪ V. gyp
variant of gip v.; gip int. Obs. |