gyp

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!

Synonym of gypsy (“contra dance step”).

To cheat or swindle.

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

You better watch out; they'll try to gyp you if you don't know what you're doing.

A domestic servant, generally male, who would attend upon (usually several) students, brushing their clothes, carrying parcels, waiting at parties and other tasks; generally equivalent to a scout in the historical sense at Oxford University

All was neglect. The outer door of this room, which was open, was nearly on a level with the Quadrangle — some coats and trousers and boots were upon the ebony table and a "gyp" was brushing away at them just within the door — in wet weather he performed these functions entirely within the library, as innocent of the incongruity of his position as my guide himself.

'Why, what is the matter with you, John?' I asked of the gyp who waited on Vincey and myself.

The room in which such college servants work.

A small kitchen for use by college students.