gyp
/dʒɪp/
verb
- To cheat or swindle someone, especially by charging too much money or providing poor quality.
- He felt the repair shop had gypped him when the car broke down again the next week.
- The street vendor tried to gyp tourists by selling fake watches at high prices.
- Don't let that salesman gyp you into paying double the normal rate.
noun
- An act of cheating or swindling; a fraud or rip-off.
- Paying fifty dollars for this tiny portion of food feels like a gyp.
- The warranty was a gyp because it didn't cover any real problems.
- That deal turned out to be a total gyp when the product arrived broken.