Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word GYP

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Definitions of GYP

1. Gypsophila.
2. Pain or discomfort.
3. (pejorative, sometimes, offensive) A cheat or swindle; a rip-off.
4. Synonym of gypsy
5. (pejorative, sometimes, offensive) To cheat or swindle.
6. (Cambridge University, Durham University, historical) A domestic servant, generally male, who would attend upon (usually several) students, brushing their clothes, carrying parcels, waiting at parties and other tasks; generally equivalent to a scout in the historical sense at Oxford University or a skip at Trinity College, Dublin.
7. (Cambridge University, Durham University) The room in which such college servants work.
8. (Cambridge University, Durham University) A small kitchen for use by college students.

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Examples of Using GYP in a Sentence

• At this point, the Hanoi Rocks line-up consisted of Michael Monroe (lead vocals), Andy McCoy (lead guitar), Nasty Suicide (rhythm guitar), Sam Yaffa (bass) and Swedish Gyp Casino (drums).
• It was said that the Bottom Hotel was for miners and the Gyp was for tinplate workers and it was a mortal sin to encroach on another man's territory.
• Mrs Biggs is not within earshot, but nevertheless has sensed that something is up from Zipser's awkward behaviour around her every time she comes to clean his room and especially when she teases him sexually, such as when she asks him to help take off her bright red PVC raincoat in the tight confines of the "gyp".
• After the album's release, the band fired drummer Gyp Casino and hired Nicholas Dingley, better known as Razzle.
• Sibylle Aimée Marie-Antoinette Gabrielle de Riquetti de Mirabeau, Comtesse de Martel de Janville (16 August 1849 – 28 June 1932) was a French writer who wrote under the pseudonym Gyp.
• January 28 - New Jersey mobster Angelo "The Gyp" DeCarlo is convicted of loansharking and extortion, and imprisoned.
• Gypsophila paniculata is much used in the floristry trade (where it is often simply called "gyp") providing an effective backdrop for larger or more structured blooms.
• The song is included in Act Two of the Broadway musical about the Four Seasons, Jersey Boys, in which the Seasons (here anachronistically including Nick Massi) beg mob boss Gyp DeCarlo to help them bail fellow band member Tommy DeVito out of his gambling debts.
• The Kid laughs at Costigan, having bet Shifty $10 that they "could hand you a hard luck tale and gyp you outa your last cent".
• Davis/Lone Wolf LouieVernon Dent as desk sergeantBlackie Whiteford as policeman in precinctBert Young as first policemanLouis Mason as second policemanGeorge Gray as "blind" manJohnny Kascier as second wallet finderKit Guard as Gyp DePeopleSam Lufkin as policeman who arrests the StoogesLew Davis as laughing pedestrianBruce Bennett as truck driver/prison guard at rockpileLynton Brent as prison guard with painted faceAl Morino as convict on rockpileNeal Burns as convict painting in prison yardStanley Brown as officer in charge of B.
• On the third season of Boardwalk Empire (2012), the main antagonist of the show Gyp Rosetti (as portrayed by Bobby Cannavale) was seen besottedly taking pleasure by engaging in sadomasochistic sexual acts (female submission) and autoerotic asphyxiation.
• Also there were Donovan, songwriter and sculptor Gyp "Gypsy Dave" Mills, Mike Love, jazz flautist Paul Horn, actors Tom Simcox and Jerry Stovin, and dozens of others, all Europeans or Americans.
• The team's roster included Louis "Slonnie" Sloaaker (quarterback), "Gyp" Manzo and Aaron McCreary (halfbacks), John Hobbs (fullback), Billie Wofford and Tommy Marlar (ends), Big Dick Smith and Howard Barkley (guards), George Hardaway and Oscar Cook (tackles), and the team captain Emzy Harvey Lynch (center).
• The original cast included Joseph Shepherd Munden as Sir Marmaduke, John Quick as Septimus, James Middleton as Captain Septimus, William Macready as Flam, Thomas Knight as Gyp, Samuel Simmons as Looby, Elizabeth Mansell as Emeline and Isabella Mattocks as Mrs.

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