gyps
Because it is a word with a single syllable, gyps is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofgyps
- (sometimes offensive) A member of the Romani people, or one of the sub-groups (Roma, Sinti, Romanichal, etc).
- (sometimes offensive) A cheat or swindle; a rip-off.
Example: "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!"
- 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.
- The room in which such college servants work.
- A small kitchen for use by college students.
- Gypsophila.
- Pain or discomfort.
Example: "My back's giving me gyp."
- An itinerant person or any person, not necessarily Romani; a tinker, a traveller or a carny.
- (sometimes offensive) A move in contra dancing in which two dancers walk in a circle around each other while maintaining eye contact (but not touching as in a swing). (Compare whole gyp, half gyp, and gypsy meltdown, in which this step precedes a swing.)
- A member of a Broadway musical chorus line.
- A person with a dark complexion.
- A sly, roguish woman.
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