Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See sodium thiosulfate.
- n. A hypodermic syringe.
- n. A hypodermic injection.
- v. To stimulate by or as if by hypodermic injection: "pandering to community fears in order to hypo ratings” ( Variety).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Like hyp. an abbreviation of hypochondria: commonly in the plural.
- n. In photography, a common abbreviation of hyposulphite of soda, a chemical extensively used in most photographic processes.
- n. A prefix of Greek origin, cognate with sub- of Latin origin, and meaning primarily ‘under,’ either in place or in degree (less,' ‘less than’). Specifically— In chem., indicating a lower place in a series of compounds, or inferior strength, as hyposulphurous acid, the lowest in the series of sulphur acids : opposed to hyper- or per-.
- n. In the manufacture of india-rubber goods, a trade-name for lead thiosulphate, used as a vulcanizing material. Also known as black hypo.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete Melancholy; a fit of ‘hypochondria’; a morbid depression (obsolete by 1881 according to Eric Partridge.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. colloq. Hypochondria.
- n. (Photog.), colloq. Sodium hyposulphite, or thiosulphate, a solution of which is used as a bath to wash out the unchanged silver salts in a picture.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a piston syringe that is fitted with a hypodermic needle for giving injections
- n. a compound used as a fixing agent in photographic developing
Etymologies
- Short for hyposulfite.Short for hypodermic. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Lincoln certainly had moments of what he called the "hypo," most notably when his first serious crush, Ann Rutledge, died in 1835, and again when he broke up with fiancée Mary Todd on the eve of their nuptials in 1841.”
“Lincoln had within him a terrible bent towards what he called the hypo, what we might today call manic depression.”
“Or, perhaps for more traction, if the US “Hitler” hypo is appropriate, why are you not calling for universal jurisdiction in the case of Mugabe, Castro, or Chavez?”
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Garzon and the Trouble with International Law”
“Having said that, I think your hypo is pretty far-fetched.”
“The nice thing about Judge Kozinskis hypo is that he would have use presume that judge knows it (or believes it as much as he can believe anything) in his guts.”
“But if the treatment lowers it too much, diabetics get a "hypo" - a faint, sweaty, unpleasant feeling which is cured by a quick dose of sugar.”
“The dynamic in Matt’s hypo is quite different from the business colleague telling us what we want to hear.”
“Of course your hypo is a much more dramatic example of changing the enforcement mechanism than the one at issue here.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Arizona Immigration Law Preempted?
“The study found one in eight runners in the 2002 Boston Marathon actually drank too much water, putting them at risk for a condition called hypo-nutrinia -- let's hope I pronounce that correctly.”
“This protective device consisted of a flannel helmet with a celluloid film eyepiece, and was called the hypo helmet.”
The riddle of the Rhine, chemical strategy in peace and war ...
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hypo’.
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Psychology
Chapter 1
rigorous, occurrence, maze, divers, intellectual, expansion, all in all, sensation, introspection, radical, orientation, nurture and 174 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Words from Moby Dick
frigate, presumptuous, genteel, succor, hearthstone, gentry, factitious, bilious, insurgent, portent, enervate, genuflect and 303 more...
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Fun with Apocopes
Words created by removing the end of a longer or original word. See also Fun with Aphesis.
abs, ad, bio, veg, veggie, tux, auto, bike, carbs, pecs, bro, sis and 186 more...
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Moby-Dick
Interesting words and usages.
hypo, spile, hunks, grapnel, squitchy, skrimshander, monkey jacket, direful, grego, wrapall, dreadnaught, bosky and 158 more...
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What, another list?
ravishing, ravenous, pronk, brinksmanship, jaspe, mottle, chasm, testy, temperament, ponder, personally, phantom and 206 more...
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Clearinghouse
For stuff to simply reside.
calcar, pinion, espadrille, antipodes, peregrine, cormorant, tanager, vireo, farrago, undervest, passerine, oscine and 881 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for hypo.
yarb ...and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me...
- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 1 Jul 23, 2008