hype

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• IPA^(key): /haɪp/

• Audio (General Australian):

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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

• → Dutch: hype
• → German: Hype

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.

   • 2023 August 23, Ben Jones, “A Fast Charge to DMUs' demise?”, in RAIL, number 990, page 30:

     Hydrogen fuel cells are hugely hyped but have yet to prove themselves in the real world beyond a few limited trials or small fleets on the European mainland.

• hype man
• hype up
• hypester

• → Dutch: hypen
• → German: hypen

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
• “hype n.¹”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
• “hype n.²”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
• “hype v.¹”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
• “hype adj.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

From English hype.

• IPA^(key): /ɦɑjp/
• Hyphenation: hype

hype c (plural hypes, diminutive hypeje n)

1. hype

From English hype.

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

hype

1. (colloquial or jargon) hype

• hypettää

• “hype”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Borrowed from English hype.

• IPA^(key): /a.ip/

hype m (plural hypes)

1. (slang) hype

From Proto-West Germanic *hupi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxy.pe/,

hype m

1. hip

Strong i-stem:

• hypebān
• hypeseax
• hypewærċ

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

• hajp (adapted)

Unadapted borrowing from English hype.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxajp/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ajp
• Syllabification: hype
• Homophone: hajp

hype m inan

1. (slang, marketing) hype

   Coordinate term: moda

• hype in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from English hype.

hype m or f (plural hypes)

1. (colloquial) hype (exaggerated excitement or enthusiasm around something)