nenena: (Tsubasa - Please stop)
nenena ([personal profile] nenena) wrote2009-02-25 09:54 am

This month's Tsubasa: Chapters 213 and 214

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

*puts on librarian hat*

[identity profile] meiousei.livejournal.com 2009-02-25 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
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.