6 April 2016

jip

gyp

modifier

: a gyp joint/ gyp terms

noun

(also gyp artist or gypster) A swindler; cheater; crook: denunciations of punks, tinhorns, and gyps (1889+)
: the victim of any such gyp (1914+)
A cabdriver who does not start the meter, hence can pocket the fare (1930+ Cabdrivers)

verb

To cheat; swindle; con:

– We got gypped out of it all in two days
– What a jip!

[fr gypsy]

gyp

The Dictionary of American Slang, Fourth Edition by Barbara Ann Kipfer, PhD. and Robert L. Chapman, Ph.D.
Copyright (C) 2007 by Harper Collins Publishers.

Today’s quote

The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

– Victor Hugo

On this day

6 April 1895 – The Australian ballad, ‘Waltzing Matilda‘ is performed at the North Gregory Hotel, Winton (central-west Queensland). This is believed to be the first time the song was performed in public.

6 April 1896 – The Olympic Games recommences in Athens 1,501 years after being banned by Emperor Theodosius I in 393AD.

6 April 1909 – Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson become the first men to reach the North Pole. Their claim is in dispute because of navigation techniques and lack of independent verification.

6 April 2006 – the National Geographic Society reveals the discovery of a papyrus codex in a cave near El Minya, Egypt, which it claims is the Gospel of Judas Iscariot. The codex is yet to be verified as written by Judas.