English-Finnish translations for gyp

Definition of gyp

• A cheat or swindle; a rip-off
• To cheat or swindle someone or something inappropriately
• A college servant, one who would attend upon a number of students, brushing their clothes, carrying parcels, waiting at parties and other tasks, distinct from a college porter or bedder.http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/archive-centre/archive-month/may-2010.html
• The room in which such college servants work
• Gypsophila
• Pain or discomfort

Examples

• Why do we have to buy this new edition of the textbook when there’s almost no difference between it and the previous one? What a gyp!
• The cab driver gypped me out of ten bucks by taking the longer route.
• You better watch out; theyll try to gyp you if you dont know what youre doing.
• My backs giving me gyp.

Related words

• Egypt
• Egyptian
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• gypsum
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