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   gyp

   /jip/

   verb

   • 1. cheat or swindle (someone): "that's salesmanship, you have to gyp people into buying stuff they don't like"

   noun

   • 1. an act of cheating someone; a swindle.

   Word Origin mid 19th century (in sense ‘alter the appearance of a horse in order to conceal signs of age from a buyer’): probably ultimately from a shortening of gypsy.

   Scrabble Points: 9

   • G

     2

   • Y

     4

   • P

     3

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