gip

Other forms of gip

plural

gips·

past tense or participle

gipped

present participle

gipping

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gip

What does gip mean?

gip means "(sometimes offensive) an act of swindling or cheating". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gip?

gip has 1 syllable: gip.

What is another word for gip?

Close synonyms include gyp, gyp. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gip a common word?

gip is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.