gyp(n = noun.act) bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, hustle, sting - a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property;
is a kind of cheat, rig, swindle
has particulars: sting operation
Derived form verb gyp₁

   gyp(v = verb.social) bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize - deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"
is one way to cheat, chisel, rip off
Derived form noun gyp₁
Sample sentences: They gyp him of all his money

   A college servant; -- so called in Cambridge, England; at Oxford called a scout. [1913 Webster]

gyp, n. Brit. colloq.
1 pain or severe discomfort.
2 a scolding (gave them gyp).

gyp, n. Brit. a college servant at Cambridge and Durham.

gyp, v. & n. sl.
--v.tr. (gypped, gypping) cheat, swindle.
--n. an act of cheating; a swindle.

Etymology:
19th c.: perh. f. GYP(2)

gyp joint