Meaning

• (sometimes offensive) A member of the Romani people, or one of the sub-groups (Roma, Sinti, Romanichal, etc).

Meaning

• (sometimes offensive) A cheat or swindle; a rip-off.

  "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!"

Meaning

• (sometimes offensive) To cheat or swindle someone or something inappropriately.

  "The cab driver gypped me out of ten bucks by taking the longer route."

Meaning

• 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.