gyp
noun
°A cheat or swindle; a rip-off.
"Why do we have to buy this new edition of the textbook when there’s almost no difference between it and the previous one? What a gyp!"
°(Cambridge and Durham, England) A college servant.
verb
°(considered pejorative by many) To cheat or swindle someone of something inappropriately.
°(Wichita, Kansas, USA vicinity) to play hooky, truant or skive.