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1. any business establishment that charges excessively for poor-quality service or goods.2. a gambling house in which the games are dishonestly run.[1930-35]
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Universalium. 2010.
gyp joint
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gyp joint — noun Etymology: gyp (II) 1. : a crooked gambling establishment 2. : an establishment (as a store, restaurant, or bar) that cheats customers by charging excessive prices for shoddy goods or inferior service * * * Informal. 1. any business… … Useful english dictionary
gyp joint — Synonyms and related words: ballot box stuffing, bordello, brothel, bunco, cardsharping, cathouse, cheat, cheating, clip joint, cozenage, den, den of thieves, diddle, diddling, dishonesty, dive, dodge, dump, fishy transaction, flam, fleshpots,… … Moby Thesaurus
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imposition — Synonyms and related words: Intertype, Linotype, Monotype, application, applying, assessment, assumption, atrocity, ballot box stuffing, blackmail, bunco, burden, burthen, call, call for, cardsharping, cargo, cess, charge, cheat, cheating, claim … Moby Thesaurus
cheat — Synonyms and related words: ballot box stuffing, bamboozle, bamboozlement, beat, befool, beguile, beguile of, bilk, blackleg, boodle, bunco, burn, cardsharping, charlatan, cheater, cheating, chicane, chicanery, chisel, chiseler, chouse, chouse… … Moby Thesaurus
bunco — Synonyms and related words: ballot box stuffing, cardsharping, cheat, cheating, cozenage, diddle, diddling, dishonesty, dodge, fishy transaction, flam, flimflam, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gerrymandering, graft, grift, gyp, gyp joint,… … Moby Thesaurus
dishonesty — Synonyms and related words: Machiavellianism, ambidexterity, artifice, bad faith, ballot box stuffing, bunco, cardsharping, cheat, cheating, chicane, chicanery, corruptedness, corruption, corruptness, cozenage, credibility gap, criminality,… … Moby Thesaurus
dodge — Synonyms and related words: about the bush, action, ad hoc measure, answer, around the bush, art, artful dodge, artifice, avoid, avoidance, avoiding reaction, back and fill, bag of tricks, ballot box stuffing, be stuck up, beat about, beat around … Moby Thesaurus
flam — Synonyms and related words: ballot box stuffing, balls, baloney, beat, beguile of, bilk, blague, bosh, bull, bullshit, bunco, bunk, bunkum, burn, cardsharping, cheat, cheating, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, claptrap, cock and bull story, cog,… … Moby Thesaurus
