1676 A. Sammes Britannia Antiqua Illustrata v. 46 From Egypt comes an Egyptian, from thence a Gypsie, and from whence, if I am not mistaken, a Gyp, the meanest of Servants, a swarthy Turn-spit, &c.

1767 W. Dodd Poems 31 No more the jolly Jips..carol out their songs. [Note] Are an idle useful set of hangers on the college, who procure ale, pence &c. by running errands, and doing little services for their masters.

1799 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1800) 3 216 The College Gyps, of high illustrious worth, With all the dishes in long order go.

1805 H. K. White Let. 10 Dec. in Remains (1807) I. 191 My bed-maker, whom we call a gyp, from a Greek word signifying a Vulture, runs away with everything he can lay his hands on.

1894 W. H. Wilkins & H. Vivian Green Bay Tree I. 234 The spiritual destitution of bedmakers and gyps.

1996 Times 11 Oct. The instructions from the Housekeeper to the gyps (college cleaners and bedmakers).

1825 Galignani's Mag. Apr. 217/1 The gyp-room, being about three feet square or so, and serving as larder, buttery, and kitchen, a place the very smell of which was enough to sicken a Hottentot.

1871 ‘M. Legrand’ Cambr. Freshman 210 He fetched the..reviving beverage from the gyp-room.

1968 Daily Mail 29 Oct. 4/2 I only have two rooms and a gyp room which I use for cooking and things.

2014 Guardian (Nexis) 12 Dec. People [from Cambridge University] who call kitchens ‘gyp rooms’, have their stuff tidied by ‘bedders’ and most of whom don medieval gowns every other week in order to have their food served to them in candlelit halls.

1728 A. Ramsay Twa Cut-purses in Poems II. 86 The Jip wha stood aboon them a', His Innocence began to shaw.

1881 A. Trumble Slang Dict. Gip, a thief.

1886 St. Louis (Missouri) Globe-Democrat 31 May 3/5 E. H. Thomas, a well known ‘gyp’ and a partner of Frank Dickson, a brother of Wash Dickson, prince of the ‘gyps’.

1927 I. Gershwin Finest of Finest in R. Kimball Compl. Lyrics I. Gershwin (1993) 111/1 Crooks and dips, you'd better beware! Thieves and gyps, you'd better take care.

1898 R. Hunter & C. Morris Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. II. Gyp, gip, [Abbrev. of gipsy.] a swindle or a swindler. (U.S. Slang.)

1943 N.Y. Times Mag. 7 Feb. 12/3 Cripes!.. You don't even get any pineapple in this jello. What a gyp for a jit [i.e. five cents]!

1967 Boston Sunday Globe 23 Apr. B61/2 Some are good, but gyps abound. Authorities report..phony practices.

2012 St. Paul (Minnesota) Pioneer Press (Nexis) 3 Sept. Wow, what a gyp to send them off to school and lose the best years.

1879 Times (Philadelphia) 12 Sept. The major number of the grand army of gyp swindlers have been frightened out of town by the recent exposures of their methods of doing business.

1918 R. W. Lardner My Four Weeks in France v. 102 The first store I selected was a gyp joint and wanted twenty-seven francs for a cap.

2001 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 22 Apr. 13 A self-proclaimed fraud, swindler and gyp artist whose first series was publicised by billboards bearing his image above the legend ‘This man is a liar’.

1830 Amer. Turf Reg. & Sporting Mag. Feb. 293 His sire was out of a gyp of the much approved stock of Col. Owings, of Baltimore county.

1895 A. Hunter in Outing 27 75/2 One of the pack—a long-limbed gyp named Queen..covered with black pitch-like mud.

2005 Tampa (Florida) Tribune (Nexis) 5 June 1 Waters was a little disappointed that there were only two females in the litter, but one of Sullivan's dogs just had a litter too, with plenty of gyps, so they'll do some trading.

1886 Evening Penny Press (Pittsburgh, Pa.) 19 June Mansel Hoke quarreled with the gypsies who are encamped north of the city last evening... Constables Arnold and Havey started for the camp immediately, but the ‘gyps’ had fled.

1890 in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads IV. vii. 72/1 There was a gip came o'er the land.

1974 Huron (S. Dakota) Daily Plainsman 16 Sept. 8/8 Members of the Northern State College Romany Clan have a new queen and marshal, parade marshal and king of the gyps.

1988 S. Belfrage Crack: Belfast Year 112 Would you stop runnin' around like a clarty wee gyp or I'll give you a looter, so I will.

1887 Leeds Mercury 10 Nov. 3/5 He replied that she must understand that his club was not for people who drank; it was for sick persons. Mrs. Laister had made herself ill, and he would give her ‘gip’ when she did come to him.

1902 Eng. Dial. Dict. III. 369/1 Ah'll gi'e tha jip... ‘Ah gav' it jip Ah can tell tha,’ said of beating a carpet soundly with a stick in each hand.

1915 ‘B. Cable’ Between Lines 19 We'll give 'em gyp if they try it. My guns are laid on their front trench and I can sweep the whole of this front with shrapnel.

1999 Select Feb. 49/3 The [record] sleeve's going to be a picture of Rasputin... I think we might get a bit of gyp for it, but I think he was just a bit misunderstood.

2018 Evening Gaz. (Middlesbrough) (Nexis) 8 Dec. The Mrs's family are all Boro fans from Normanby so they've been giving me a bit of gyp all week.

1894 White Lead Comm.: Minutes Evid. Departmental Comm. Various Lead Industries 143/2 in Parl. Papers 1893–4 (C. 7239-I) XVII. 743 It gave me ‘gip’;..we could not get rid of the steam which used to smother us. You do not take any ill effects from it when it is dry; it was the vapour coming off when you boiled it.

1917 P. MacGill Brown Brethren xii. 170 A cramp in my guts!..Gawd, it isn't 'arf giving me gyp!

1936 P. G. Wodehouse Laughing Gas iv. 46 If you knew what gyp those shoes were giving me that night.

2012 S. Townsend Woman who went to Bed for Year lxv. 417 His knees had been giving him gip lately.

1861 J. Gamgee Our Domest. Animals in Health & Dis. i. 63 The grey hairs of animals are sometimes painted—this is called ‘gypping’.

1869 G. Armatage Horseowner & Stableman's Compan. 5 If the purchaser misses an animal which is either ‘broken-winded’, ‘bishoped’, ‘gypped’, ‘puffed’, ‘blaundered’, or has the ‘bellans’, he may have secured a more worthless prize in the shape of a dangerous brute.

1879 Times (Philadelphia) 12 Sept. He had been gypped an hour before out of $10 by a man who signed himself John Monaghan, at a stable in the rear of 714 Spruce street.

1925 F. S. Fitzgerald Great Gatsby ii. 41 We had over twelve hundred dollars when we started, but we got gyped out of it all in two days.

1962 Punch 28 Feb. 356/2 If he..thinks the conductor is trying to gyp him..he..need only look at the fares table.

2015 East Tennessean (Nexis) 23 Mar. 1 Sometimes the cab drivers can be a pain and try to gyp you out of your money.