| NOUN | act | gyp, bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, hustle, sting, flimflam | a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property |
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| VERB | social | gyp, victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con | deprive of by deceit |
| Sounds | jhih'p | |
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| Rhymes | acquaintanceship ... zip / ZIP: 103 rhymes with ihp... | |
| Meaning | A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property. | |
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| Synonyms | bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, hustle, sting, flimflam | |
| Narrower | sting operation | A complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals) |
| Broader | swindle, cheat, rig | The act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme |
| Catalan | frau | |
| Spanish | fraude | |
| Verbs | gyp | deprive of by deceit |
| Meaning | deprive of by deceit. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s somebody PP | |
| Model | They gyp him of all his money | |
| Example | "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change" | |
| Synonyms | victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con | |
| Narrower | short-change, short | cheat someone by not returning him enough money |
| Broader | cheat, rip off, chisel | deprive somebody of something by deceit |
| Nouns | gyp | a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property |