This month's Tsubasa: Chapters 213 and 214

[nenena]

Does anybody know of a good English slang word that's the semantic equivalent of gyp, but without the racist baggage?

Comments

[icysnowdrop.livejournal.com]

Rip-off? Cheat?

*puts on librarian hat*

[meiousei.livejournal.com]

From Roget's II New Thesaurus

gyp also gip
verb
Slang. To get money or something else from by deceitful trickery: bilk, cheat, cozen, defraud, gull, mulct, rook, swindle, victimize. Informal: chisel, flimflam, take, trim. Slang: diddle1, do, stick, sting. See honest

noun
1.
Slang. An act of cheating: cheat, fraud, swindle, victimization. Informal: flimflam. See honest

2.
Slang. A person who cheats: bilk, cheat, cheater, cozener, defrauder, rook, sharper, swindler, trickster, victimizer. Informal: chiseler, crook, flimflammer. Slang: diddler, gypper. See honest

From the Online Slang Dictionary
I would start here.

[orangeskirt.livejournal.com]

Short-change?

[hauntedreality.livejournal.com]

Shaft comes to mind unless it has different racist baggage of which I'm unaware.

[neocloud9.livejournal.com]

Con?

[the-terrible.livejournal.com]

WHOAH. That bad, huh?

[tobu-ishi.livejournal.com]

I've always been fond of 'bilk' and 'screw over', personally.