hyp

1. (entertainment, informal)Examples: "A hyp act is scheduled after the acrobats."; "[W]hen a dream or the hyp has given us falſe terrors, or imaginary pains, we immediately conclude, that the infernal tyrant owes us a ſpite, and inflicts his wrath and ſtripes upon us, by the hands of ſome of his ſworn ſervants amongſt us."countableinformaluncountable

2. (entertainment, informal)Examples: "The hyp is booked through the end of the month."countableinformaluncountable

3. (mathematics) A hypotenuse.countableuncountable

4. (slang) Alternative form of hype (“hypodermic [needle]”).Examples: "Itinerant short con and carny hyp men have burned down the croakers of Texas. . . ."alt-ofalternativecountableslanguncountable