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Meaning of hyp | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2
ˈhɪp

Definitions

  1. Hypochondria.
  2. Initialism of Harvard/Yale/Princeton.
  3. Hypnotism.
  4. A hypnotist.
  5. A hypotenuse.

Examples

“Heaven ſend thou haſt not got the Hypps. / How? Not a Word come from thy lips?”
“Guess I've got a bad case of the hyps.”
“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 ſervants amongſt us.”
“The hyp is booked through the end of the month.”
“Itinerant short con and carny hyp men have burned down the croakers of Texas. . . .”
“Dartmouth has always been one of the foremost academic institutions in the country. What, then, is Sehgal’s real complaint? He worries that the "yield numbers" indicate more students want admission to HYP than Dartmouth."”
“But we do know that the acceptance rate for legacy applicants at "HYP" (Harvard, Yale, Princeton), Georgetown, and Stanford is between two and three times higher than the general admission rate, as shown in figure 6-2.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
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