- an act of charging too much money for something
- That meal was a real gyp.
Word Origingive somebody gyp. late 19th cent.: perhaps from gee-up (see gee(verb)). noun late 19th cent.: of unknown origin.Want to learn more?
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Idioms
See gyp in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarygive somebody gyp
- (British English, informal) to cause somebody a lot of pain
- My back's been giving me gyp lately.
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