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Re:Don’t Fix Facebook, Replace It by Spellchamp on Thursday April 05, 2018 @09:57AM (#16764917)
What does "gyp" mean? I googled it but I feel like I'm missing something.
Re:Don’t Fix Facebook, Replace It by artimaeis on Thursday April 05, 2018 @10:18AM (#16765089)
Re:Don’t Fix Facebook, Replace It by MartinCron on Thursday April 05, 2018 @10:23AM (#16765138)
Short for “Gypsy”. Many consider it to be a racial slur. Just as some people use “Jew” as a verb in a similar way (more obviously a slur).
Re:Don’t Fix Facebook, Replace It by thousandautumns on Thursday April 05, 2018 @12:37PM (#16766443)
Have you ever heard someone say something like "I got gypped out of X" or "what a gyp!". It's slang for something like a scam or getting ripped off. It originally comes from the word "gypsy", which is an actual ethnicity of people in Europe, who have a negative stereotype of theft/dishonesty.