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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Excessive publicity and the ensuing commotion: the hype surrounding the murder trial.
  2. n. Exaggerated or extravagant claims made especially in advertising or promotional material: "It is pure hype, a gigantic PR job” ( Saturday Review).
  3. n. An advertising or promotional ploy: "Some restaurant owners in town are cooking up a $75,000 hype to promote New York as 'Restaurant City, U.S.A.'” ( New York).
  4. n. Something deliberately misleading; a deception: "[He] says that there isn't any energy crisis at all, that it's all a hype, to maintain outrageous profits for the oil companies” ( Joel Oppenheimer).
  5. v. To publicize or promote, especially by extravagant, inflated, or misleading claims: hyped the new book by sending its author on a promotional tour.
  6. n. A hypodermic injection, syringe, or needle.
  7. n. A drug addict.
  8. v. To stimulate with or as if with a hypodermic injection: "hyped the country up to a purposeless pitch” ( Newsweek).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. See hipe.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Promotion or propaganda; especially, exaggerated claims.
  2. v. transitive To promote heavily; to advertise or build up.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. publicize in an exaggerated and often misleading manner
  2. n. blatant or sensational promotion

Etymologies

  1. From hyperbole. (Wiktionary)
  2. Partly from hype, a swindle (perhaps from hyper-) and partly from hype(rbole).Shortening and alteration of hypodermic. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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hypernyms (8)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. publicise
  1. air
  1. publicize
  1. bare
  1. packaging
  1. promotion
  1. promotional material
  1. publicity

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rhymes (14)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. gipe
  2. gripe
  1. lipe
  2. overripe
  1. pipe
  2. ripe
  1. sipe
  2. snipe
  1. stipe
  2. stripe
  1. swipe
  2. tripe
  1. type
  2. wipe

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. hipe
  1. fine-tune
  1. hype
  1. plastic
  1. -meister

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  1. hipe

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  • slumry Well, I don't know if they were dull or not, but it is interesting that one should be hopped up on hops and hyped up by hypodermic needles.

    I think I will stick with coffee. That does the trick for me. Jul 10, 2007

  • uselessness Wow, it's interesting how our words to describe excitement are rooted in describing mental illness and drug activity. Our ancestors must have been awfully dull, I guess. Jul 10, 2007

  • slumry The etymology of hype is more complex than I had guessed. In addition to being short for hyperbole, it is influenced by drug user's slang, short for hypodermic needle, and also by the sense of a hyper or con man. It was not until the 1960s that it came to be used as a term for excessive advertising. Jul 10, 2007

  • quotato I'm just trying to hype the word hype. Jan 20, 2007

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