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▪ I. hype, n.1 slang (orig. U.S.).|haɪp|
Also hyp.
[Abbrev. of hypodermic.]
a. A drug-addict.
b. A hypodermic needle or syringe.
c. A hypodermic injection. Cf. hypo n.3
1924G. C. Henderson Keys to Crookdom xxiv. 306 Next down on the list is the ‘hype’ or morphine-user. Morphine is taken by hypodermic injections. 1929[see bang n.3]. 1936Amer. Speech XI. 122/2 Hype, the hypodermic needle used to inject narcotics. 1952D. E. Hulburd H is for Heroin ii. 52 They smoked two marijuana cigarettes apiece that an old addict—‘an old hype’—had sold Hortense. 1955U.S. Senate Hearings (1956) VIII. 4164 Terms for morphine addicts: ‘Hype’, ‘Hygelo’, ‘Head’, ‘Fiend’, ‘Needle man’, ‘Junky’, ‘Junker’. 1963New Society 7 Nov. 9/1 ‘Once a hype, always a hype,’ the American narcotics addict says. 1972J. Wambaugh Blue Knight (1973) i. 11 They were dumb strung-out hypes. Ibid., The tall one is wearing a long-sleeved shirt buttoned at the cuff. To hide his hype marks.
▪ II. hype, n.2 slang (orig. U.S.).|haɪp|
[Origin unknown.]
a. An instance of short-changing; a person who does not give the correct amount of change.
b. (The usual current sense.) Deception, cheating; a confidence trick, a racket, a swindle, a publicity stunt.
1926Clues Nov. 161/2 Hype, short change artist. 1926[see hype v.1]. 1935A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 60/2 Hype, a short change artist. A person who does not give the correct amount of change to a customer. 1955D. W. Maurer in Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxiv. 85 Sometimes he has auxiliary rackets, such as the hype or some form of the short con. 1962J. Baldwin Another Country (1963) ii. iv. 336 Life is a bitch, baby. It's the biggest hype going. 1966C. Himes Heat's On xxii. 173 That was how Gus got the money... That shocked her; she had believed Gus's hype about his wife leaving him a farm. 1967N. Mailer Cannibals & Christians i. 29 The hype had made fifty million musical-comedy minds; now the hype could do anything. 1968Sunday Times 11 Aug. 5/1 Hype is an American word for the gentle art of getting a tune into the pop charts without actually selling any records. Its methods are various: from the crudest bribery to devious techniques for upsetting the..calculations of chart-compilers. 1969Listener 25 Sept. 420/3 All the ‘hype’ and conning that goes into the establishing of every star. 1970L. Sanders Anderson Tapes li. 135 He's been on the con or hustling his ass or pulling paper hypes. 1972Publishers Weekly 6 Mar. 2/2 They carried off the biggest money-making hype in sports history.
▪ III. hype, v.1 slang (orig. U.S.).|haɪp|
Also hipe.
[Origin unknown.]
To short-change, to cheat; to deceive, to con, esp. by false publicity. So ˈhyping vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1926Maines & Grant Wise-Crack Dict. 9/2 Hype, to overcharge. As, ‘That place has a hype on this week.’ 1931G. Irwin Amer. Tramp & Underworld Slang 99 Hipe, to cheat or short change... Perhaps connected with the North-England ‘hipe’, to find fault with, to slander; perhaps from ‘high pressure’. 1945L. Shelly Jive Talk Dict. 13/1 Hype (v.), to try a trick. 1946Mezzrow & Wolfe Really Blues 375 Hype v., to deliver a phony but convincing line. 1962J. Baldwin Another Country (1963) iii. i. 402 He doesn't seem to be trying to hype me, not even when he talked about his wife and kids. 1968Sunday Times 11 Aug. 5/1 The dominance of the charts over the pop music industry is such that many thousands of pounds may depend on these hyping operations. 1969N. Cohn AWopBopaLooBop (1970) v. 51 Hype is a crucial word. In theory it is short for hyperbole. In practice, though, it means to promote by hustle, pressure, even honest effort if necessary, and the idea is that you leave nothing to chance. Simply, you do everything possible. Hype has become such an integral part of pop that one hardly notices it any more. 1969Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 27 Sept. 25/1 You can't hype kids into buying things they don't want... They hate hype. 1970It 27 Feb.–13 Mar. 15/1 Paying..lip-service to furiously hyping publicists. Ibid., A lunchtime hyping session. 1971Listener 15 Apr. 467/1 Bogus alternatives are hyped into prominence and fortune with appalling ease. 1971Bookseller 23 Oct. 2053/2 In America a practice exists (known as ‘hyping’ in the record business) whereby a film company which has acquired the rights in a title forces it on to the bestseller list by sending young publicity men around armed with hundred-dollar bills and instructions to buy twenty or more copies from selected book shops.
▪ IV. hype, v.2 U.S. slang.|haɪp|
[f. hype n.1]
Usu. as hyped pa. pple. or ppl. a. (const. up): stimulated, worked up (as if from the effects of a hypodermic injection).
1938D. Castle Do Your Own Time xxi. 200 Y' gotta lay off the wimmin, an' don't hype y'rself up till y' goes out t' heist a joint. 1946Mezzrow & Wolfe Really Blues iv. 54, I was so hyped-up I couldn't sit still. 1950in Wentworth & Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 278/2 No fireworks [in this movie], no fake suspense, no hyped-up glamour. 1970V. Johnston Phantom Cottage (1971) xxi. 165 If some hyped-up character goes past at seventy miles an hour, we'll take out after him. 1973Publishers Weekly 12 Feb. 64/3 Witty, intellectual fun that keeps his readers hyped up and on their mettle. 1973Time 25 June 16/2 As he works, Mitchell has at times been so hyped up that Martha once asked his doctor to prescribe medication to slow him down.
▪ V. hype
obs. form of hip n.1 |