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   gazump

   /ɡəˈzʌmp/

   verb

   • 1. make a higher offer for a house than (someone whose offer has already been accepted by the seller) and thus succeed in acquiring the property: informal British "the trio are fuming after they were gazumped by a property speculator"
   • 2. swindle (someone): informal, dated British "I gazumped a friend of mine with complete success last night"

   Word Origin 1920s (in gazump (sense 2)): from Yiddish gezumph ‘overcharge’. gazump (sense 1) dates from the 1970s.

   Derivatives

   • 1. gazumper noun

   Scrabble Points: 20

   • G

     2

   • A

     1

   • Z

     10

   • U

     1

   • M

     3

   • P

     3

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