hype

• IPA^(key): /haɪp/

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• Rhymes: -aɪp

Clipping of hyperbole.

hype (usually uncountable, plural hypes)

1. (marketing) Promotion or propaganda; especially exaggerated claims.

   After all the hype for the diet plan, only the results ended up slim.

   • 1988, “Don't Believe the Hype”, in It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, performed by Public Enemy:

     Don't believe the hype, it's a sequel / As an equal can I get this through to you

hype (third-person singular simple present hypes, present participle hyping, simple past and past participle hyped)

1. (transitive) To promote heavily; to advertise or build up.

   They started hyping the new magazine months before its release.

• hype man
• hype up
• hypester

hype (comparative more hype, superlative most hype)

1. (informal) Hyped; excited.
2. (slang) Excellent, cool.

hype (plural hypes)

1. (slang) Short for hypodermic needle.

   hype kit

2. (metonymically, slang, dated) A drug addict.
   • 2001, James Ellroy, The Cold Six Thousand, New York: Knopf, →ISBN, page 90:

     The Mob enforced the No-“H” Law. They tortured pushers. They killed them. Local hypes copped in L.A. Local hypes rode the Heroin Highway.

• hyp

hype (plural hypes)

1. Alternative form of hipe (“wrestling move”)

hype (third-person singular simple present hypes, present participle hyping, simple past and past participle hyped)

1. Alternative form of hipe (“wrestling move”)

• hype (marketing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Jonathon Green (2023), “hype n.¹”, in Green's Dictionary of Slang
• Jonathon Green (2023), “hype n.²”, in Green's Dictionary of Slang
• Jonathon Green (2023), “hype v.¹”, in Green's Dictionary of Slang
• Jonathon Green (2023), “hype adj.”, in Green's Dictionary of Slang

From English hype.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhype/, [ˈhype̞]
• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑi̯p/, [ˈhɑi̯p] (vowel harmony 'a')
• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑi̯pːi/, [ˈhɑi̯pːi] (vowel harmony 'a')
• Rhymes: -ype
• Syllabification^(key): hy‧pe

hype

1. (colloquial or jargon) hype

• hypettää

From Proto-West Germanic *hupi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxy.pe/, [ˈhy.pe]

hype m

1. hip

• hypebān
• hypeseax
• hypewærċ

• Middle English: hippe, hip
  • English: hip
  • Scots: hip