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Definition of gyp joint in US English: gyp jointnoun informal 1A business establishment, especially a store, that has a reputation for cheating customers by charging exorbitant prices for inferior goods or services. Example sentencesExamples - So go she did, working every gyp joint and watering hole from here to California.
- What kind of gyp joint is this?
- They'd just arrived and already it was dawning on them that this vacation wasn't going to be romantic adventure, it was going to be a forced march from one gyp joint to the next.
- God knows I just keep sucking it in every time the owner of one of those gyp joints tells me ‘no refunds no returns!’
- That's what I did in gyp joints and was never stopped when I walked out.
2A gambling establishment in which the games are run dishonestly. Example sentencesExamples - Why are there no bills being passed to protect the players at these ‘legalized’ gambling gyp joints?
Definition of gyp joint in US English: gyp jointnoun informal 1A business establishment, especially a store, that has a reputation for cheating customers by charging exorbitant prices for inferior goods or services. Example sentencesExamples - That's what I did in gyp joints and was never stopped when I walked out.
- So go she did, working every gyp joint and watering hole from here to California.
- What kind of gyp joint is this?
- God knows I just keep sucking it in every time the owner of one of those gyp joints tells me ‘no refunds no returns!’
- They'd just arrived and already it was dawning on them that this vacation wasn't going to be romantic adventure, it was going to be a forced march from one gyp joint to the next.
2A gambling establishment in which the games are run dishonestly. Example sentencesExamples - Why are there no bills being passed to protect the players at these ‘legalized’ gambling gyp joints?
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