cheat vs gyp

cheat

noun
  • Someone who cheats. 

  • A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies. 

  • A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code. 

  • An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception. 

  • The weed cheatgrass. 

verb
  • To deceive; to fool; to trick. 

  • To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner; to commit adultery, or to engage in sexual or romantic conduct with a person other than one's partner in contravention of the rules of society or agreement in the relationship. 

  • To manage to avoid something even though it seemed inevitable. 

  • To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation. 

gyp

noun
  • A cheat or swindle; a rip-off. 

  • Pain or discomfort. 

  • The room in which such college servants work. 

  • 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 or a skip at Trinity College, Dublin. 

  • Coordinate terms: porter, bedder 

  • Synonym of gypsy (“contra dance step”) 

  • Gypsophila. 

  • A small kitchen for use by college students. 

verb
  • To cheat or swindle. 

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