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Re: New Brickbay promotion
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 15 Jun 2001 02:17:26 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Matthew Gerber writes:
> In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Rich Manzo writes:
> > In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, William R. Ward writes:
> > > That's spelled "gyp" and it's a racist term (short for Gypsy), which
> > > you should probably refrain from using.
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> > Are you sure about this? I have heard this term many times and always
> > assumed it was gipped. For example, this is how I usually hear the term: "I
> > was gipped (gyped) at the used car lot." I guess I see your point but I
> > think that this was just one term that was acclimated into the American
> > vocabulary.
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> He is correct. From Dictionary.com:
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> gyp also gip (jp) Slang
> tr.v. gypped, also gipped gyp·ping, gip·ping gyps, gips
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> To deprive (another) of something by fraud; cheat or swindle.
> n.
> 1. A fraud or swindle.
> 2. One who defrauds; a swindler.
Don't mind me, but isn't that what a Gypsy is?
Josh
P.S. Please don't think of me as a racist or something...
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> [Probably short for Gypsy.]
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> gypper n.
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> Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth
> Edition
> Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
> Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
>
> Matt (Self-Proclaimed LUGNET King of Citing Stuff ©)
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| (...) I don't think you are a racist but I do think you may be misinformed, it is no more accurate to say that a Gypsy is a swindler than it is to say that a Yooper is stupid. ++Lar (a troll... literally! I live below *the* bridge.) (25 years ago, 15-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) He is correct. From Dictionary.com: gyp also gip (jp) Slang tr.v. gypped, also gipped gyp·ping, gip·ping gyps, gips To deprive (another) of something by fraud; cheat or swindle. n. 1. A fraud or swindle. 2. One who defrauds; a swindler. (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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