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▪ I. hypo, n.1 ? Obs.|ˈhɪpəʊ|
Also 8 hippo, hyppo, 9 pl. (rare) hypos.
[Abbreviation of hypochondria: cf. hyp.]
Morbid depression of spirits.
1711Mandevile (title) A Treatise of the Hypochondriack and Hysterick Passion vulgarly call'd the Hypo in Men and Vapours in Women. 1725Bailey Erasm. Colloq. 163 When he's neither in a Passion, nor in the Hippo, nor in Liquor. 1738[see hyp]. 1756–66T. Amory J. Buncle (1770) III. 157 A chronic hyppo. 1851H. Melville Whale i. 1 When my hypos get the upper hand of me. 1869Mrs. Stowe Oldtown F. 333 Alleging as a reason that ‘'t would bring on her hypos’.
▪ II. hypo, n.2 Photogr.|ˈhaɪpəʊ|
[Abbreviation of hyposulphite.]
The salt formerly called hyposulphite, now thiosulphate, of soda, used for fixing photographic pictures. Also attrib.
1855[see print n. 13]. 1861Photogr. News Alm. in Circ. Sc. (c 1865) I. 155/1 A little will be lost in the hypo fixing bath. Ibid. 155/2 The proof assumes a disagreeable red hue after it is fixed with the hypo. 1889Anthony's Photogr. Bull. II. 76 Hypo is cheap, and can be bought at nearly every drug store. Ibid. 274 The action of restrainers and retarders, of hypo⁓eliminators.
▪ III. hypo, n.3 slang.|ˈhaɪpəʊ|
[Abbrev. of hypodermic.]
A hypodermic needle or injection; a drug-addict.
1904San Francisco Chron. Suppl. 30 Oct. 4 (caption to picture showing a morphine addict) The ‘Hypo’. 1925Writer's Monthly June 486/2 Hypo, a hypodermic syringe or a hypodermic needle. 1926J. Black You can't Win xii. 159 ‘Vag these two hypos’, said the cop to the desk man. 1936G. K. Zipf Psycho-Biol. of Lang. ii. 31 Hypo may be a truncation of a hypodermic injection..or it may be an abbreviation of ‘hyposulfite of soda’. 1942R.A.F. Jrnl. 3 Oct. 30 Horrible rumours about the ease with which a hypo. needle will break. 1953W. Burroughs Junkie (1972) ii. 21 An eyedropper is easier to use than a regular hypo, especially for giving yourself vein shots. 1956H. Gold Man who was not with It (1965) ii. 18 He..dragged his fingers along the little scabs from the hypo. 1973J. Wainwright Devil you Don't 89 The night medic..held the loaded hypo.
▪ IV. hypo, v. slang.|ˈhaɪpəʊ|
[f. hypo n.3]
To administer a hypodermic injection (to). Also fig. Hence ˈhypoing vbl. n.
1925Flynn's 7 Feb. 489/2 Hypo, to use a hypodermic syringe. 1945Variety 24 Oct. 4/4 (heading) Many new pix to hypo bond preems [i.e. new pictures offered as inducements for bond premieres]. 1956C. D. Simak Strangers in Universe (1958) 14 Apparently not too dangerous. Not with every single soul hypoed and immunized and hormoned to his eyebrows. 1960Time (Dom. ed.) 25 Jan. 90/3 Because of continuing hypo-ing, his arms and legs become abscessed. 1968Listener 31 Oct. 567/3 This impulse is very much hypo'd up during an election year. |