hype

• IPA^(key): /haɪp/

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• Rhymes: -aɪp

Clipping of hyperbole.

hype (usually uncountable, plural hypes)

1. (marketing) Promotion or propaganda; especially exaggerated claims.

   After all the hype for the diet plan, only the results ended up slim.

   • 1988, “Don't Believe the Hype”, in It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, performed by Public Enemy:

     Don't believe the hype, it's a sequel / As an equal can I get this through to you

hype (third-person singular simple present hypes, present participle hyping, simple past and past participle hyped)

1. (transitive) To promote heavily; to advertise or build up.

   They started hyping the new magazine months before its release.

• hype man
• hype up
• hypester

hype (comparative more hype, superlative most hype)

1. (informal) Hyped (“excited”).
2. (slang) Excellent, cool.

hype (plural hypes)

1. (slang) Short for hypodermic needle.

   hype kit

2. (metonymically, slang, dated) A drug addict.
   • 2001, James Ellroy, The Cold Six Thousand, New York: Knopf, →ISBN, page 90:

     The Mob enforced the No-“H” Law. They tortured pushers. They killed them. Local hypes copped in L.A. Local hypes rode the Heroin Highway.

• hyp

hype (plural hypes)

1. Alternative form of hipe (“wrestling move”)

hype (third-person singular simple present hypes, present participle hyping, simple past and past participle hyped)

1. Alternative form of hipe (“wrestling move”)

• hype (marketing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Jonathon Green (2023), “hype n.¹”, in Green's Dictionary of Slang
• Jonathon Green (2023), “hype n.²”, in Green's Dictionary of Slang
• Jonathon Green (2023), “hype v.¹”, in Green's Dictionary of Slang
• Jonathon Green (2023), “hype adj.”, in Green's Dictionary of Slang

From English hype.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhype/, [ˈhype̞]
• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑi̯p/, [ˈhɑi̯p] (vowel harmony 'a')
• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑi̯pːi/, [ˈhɑi̯pːi] (vowel harmony 'a')
• Rhymes: -ype
• Syllabification^(key): hy‧pe

hype

1. (colloquial or jargon) hype

• hypettää

From Proto-West Germanic *hupi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxy.pe/, [ˈhy.pe]

hype m

1. hip

• hypebān
• hypeseax
• hypewærċ

• Middle English: hippe, hip
  • English: hip
  • Scots: hip