Definitions
1.noun(sometimes offensive) A member of the Romani people, or one of the sub-groups (Roma, Sinti, Romanichal, etc).
2.noun(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!"
3.nounA 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.
4.nounThe room in which such college servants work.
5.nounA small kitchen for use by college students.
6.nounGypsophila.
7.nounPain or discomfort."My back's giving me gyp."
8.nounAn itinerant person or any person, not necessarily Romani; a tinker, a traveller or a carny.
9.noun(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.)
10.nounA member of a Broadway musical chorus line.
11.nounA person with a dark complexion.
12.nounA sly, roguish woman.