hyp

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɪp/

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• Rhymes: -ɪp

hyp (countable and uncountable, plural hyps)

1. Hypochondria.
   • 1731, [Jonathan Swift], “Cassinus and Peter. A Tragical Elegy.”, in A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed. […], Dublin; London: […] [William Bowyer] for J. Roberts […], published 1734, OCLC 1102705083, page 27:

     Heaven ſend thou haſt not got the Hypps. / How? Not a Word come from thy lips?

   • 1922, Francis Lynde, Pirates’ Hope, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 33:

     Guess I've got a bad case of the hyps.

2. (entertainment, informal)
   1. Hypnotism.

      A hyp act is scheduled after the acrobats.

      • 1759 December 5 (Gregorian calendar), [Oliver] Goldsmith, “On Deceit and Falshood”, in The Bee, a Select Collection of Essays, on the Most Interesting and Entertaining Subjects, […], number VIII, new edition, London: […] W[illiam] Lane, […], published c. 1790, OCLC 23028200, page 230:

        [W]hen a dream or the hyp has given us falſe terrors, or imaginary pains, we immediately conclude, that the infernal tyrant owes us a ſpite, and inflicts his wrath and ſtripes upon us, by the hands of ſome of his ſworn ſervants amongſt us.

   2. A hypnotist.

      The hyp is booked through the end of the month.

3. (mathematics) A hypotenuse.
4. (slang) Alternative form of hype (“hypodermic [needle]”)
   • 1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 13:

     Itinerant short con and carny hyp men have burned down the croakers of Texas. . . .

• hyp.

hyp (third-person singular simple present hyps, present participle hypping, simple past and past participle hypped)

1. (colloquial, dated) To make melancholy.

• PHY, phy

• hip

A variant of hip.

hyp (first-person singular past tense hypa, participle hypur)

1. I get on, ride, straddle
2. I rise, go up, climb into