GAZUMP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gazump mean? 

• GAZUMP (verb)
  The verb GAZUMP has 2 senses:

1. rip off; ask an unreasonable price

2. raise the price of something after agreeing on a lower price

  Familiarity information: GAZUMP used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GAZUMP (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they gazump    ... he / she / it gazumps   
Past simple: gazumped   
Past participle: gazumped   
-ing form: gazumping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rip off; ask an unreasonable price

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

fleece; gazump; hook; overcharge; pluck; plume; rob; soak; surcharge

Hypernyms (to "gazump" is one way to...):

cheat; chisel; rip off (deprive somebody of something by deceit)

"Gazump" entails doing...:

bill; charge (demand payment)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "gazump"):

extort; gouge; rack; squeeze; wring (obtain by coercion or intimidation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Raise the price of something after agreeing on a lower price

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "gazump" is one way to...):

cheat; chisel; rip off (deprive somebody of something by deceit)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody