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hype 1
(hīp) Slangn.
1. Excessive publicity and the ensuing commotion: the hype surrounding the murder trial.
2. Exaggerated or extravagant claims made especially in advertising or promotional material: "It is pure hype, a gigantic PR job" (Saturday Review).
3. 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. 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).
tr.v. hyped, hyp·ing, hypes
To publicize or promote, especially by extravagant, inflated, or misleading claims: hyped the new book by sending its author on a promotional tour.
hype 2
(hīp) Slangn.
1. A hypodermic injection, syringe, or needle.
2. A drug addict.
tr.v. hyped, hyp·ing, hypes
To stimulate or excite. Often used with up: All that coffee really hyped me up. The kids were hyped up even before the party began.
[Shortening and alteration of hypodermic.]
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hype
(haɪp)n
(Medicine) a hypodermic needle or injection
vb
1. (usually foll by: up) to inject oneself with a drug
2. (tr) to stimulate artificially or excite
[C20: shortened from hypodermic]
hype
(haɪp)n
1. a deception or racket
2. (Commerce) intensive or exaggerated publicity or sales promotion: media hype.
3. (Commerce) the person or thing so publicized
vb (tr)
4. (Commerce) to market or promote (a product) using exaggerated or intensive publicity
5. to falsify or rig (something)
6. (Pop Music) (in the pop-music business) to buy (copies of a particular record) in such quantity as to increase its ratings in the charts
[C20: of unknown origin]
ˈhyper n
ˈhyping n
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hype1
(haɪp)v. hyped, hyp•ing,
n. Informal. v.t.
1. to stimulate, excite, or agitate (usu. fol. by up).
2. to create interest in by flamboyant or dramatic methods; promote or publicize showily.
3. to intensify or increase, often by questionable methods: extra features added to cars to hype profits.
4. to trick; gull.
n. 5. intensive or exaggerated publicity or promotion.
6. a flamboyant or questionable claim, method, etc., used in advertising or publicity.
7. a swindle, deception, or trick.
[1925–30, Amer.; in sense “to trick, swindle,” of uncertain orig.; subsequent senses perhaps by reanalysis as a shortening of hyperbole]
hyp′er, n.
hype2
(haɪp)n. Slang.
1. a hypodermic needle.
2. a drug addict.
[1920–25; shortening of hypodermic; compare hypo1]
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hype
Past participle: hyped
Gerund: hyping
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| Noun | 1. | hype - blatant or sensational promotion promotion, promotional material, publicity, packaging - a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution; "the packaging of new ideas" |
| Verb | 1. | hype - publicize in an exaggerated and often misleading manner |
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hype
noun (Slang)
verb
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hype
nounverb
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Translations
hype
[haɪp]A. N → exageraciones fpl (Comm) → bombo m publicitario
it's just media hype → no es más que una campaña orquestada por los medios de comunicación
it's just media hype → no es más que una campaña orquestada por los medios de comunicación
B. VT (Comm) → dar bombo publicitario a
the much-hyped movie: Batman → la tan cacareada película: Batman
the much-hyped movie: Batman → la tan cacareada película: Batman
hype up
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hype
(inf)n → Publicity f; media hype → Medienrummel m (inf); the concept is mainly hype → das Konzept beruht hauptsächlich auf Publicity; all this hype about … → dieser ganze Rummel um … (inf)
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