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Gyp  n.  A college servant; so called in Cambridge, England; at Oxford called a scout. (Cant)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Gyp" Quotes from Famous Books



... you! Where's your portmanteau? Oh—left it at the Bull! Ah! I see. Very well, we'll send the gyp for it in a minute, and order some luncheon. We're just going down to the boat-race. Sorry I can't stop, but we shall all be fined—not a moment to lose. I'll send you in luncheon as I go through the butteries; then, perhaps, you'd like to come down and see the race. Ask ...
— Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet • Rev. Charles Kingsley et al

... catch the conversation that passed between their officer and the artilleryman. And a thrill of disappointment pulsed down the line at the gunner's answer to the first question put to him. 'No,' he said, 'I have orders not to fire unless they come out of the trenches to attack. We'll give 'em gyp if they try it. My guns are laid on their front trench and I can sweep the whole ...
— Between the Lines • Boyd Cable

... pleasure, which the Hayes family never denied themselves; and they returned home with a good appetite to breakfast, braced by the walk, and tickled into hunger, as it were, by the spectacle. I can recollect, when I was a gyp at Cambridge, that the "men" used to have breakfast-parties for the very same purpose; and the exhibition of the morning acted infallibly upon the stomach, and caused the young students to eat with ...
— Catherine: A Story • William Makepeace Thackeray



Words linked to "Gyp" :   rook, short, gip, con, rig, con game, cheat, bunco, confidence trick, sting operation, hustle, bunko game, flimflam, goldbrick, confidence game, nobble, sting, short-change, chisel



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