hyp

Hypochondria.

Noun

  1. Hypochondria.
    • Heaven ſend thou haſt not got the Hypps. / How? Not a Word come from thy lips? - 1731, [Jonathan Swift], “Cassinus and Peter. A Tragical Elegy.”, in A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed. […], Dublin; London: […]...
    • Guess I've got a bad case of the hyps. - 1922, Francis Lynde, Pirates’ Hope, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 33:
  2. Hypnotism.
    • A hyp act is scheduled after the acrobats.
    • [W]hen a dream or the hyp has given us falſe terrors, or imaginary pains, we immediately conclude, that the infernal tyrant owes us a ſpite, and inflicts his wrath and ſtripes upon us, by the hands of ſome of his ſworn...
  3. A hypnotist.
    • The hyp is booked through the end of the month.
  4. A hypotenuse.
  5. Alternative form of hype (“hypodermic [needle]”).
    • Itinerant short con and carny hyp men have burned down the croakers of Texas. . . . - 1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 13:

Forms

hyps hyp.

Derived

hyppish

Verb

  1. To make melancholy.

Forms

hyps hypping hypped