亚洲网紅露点

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hype

1

[ hahyp ]

verb (used with object)

hyped, hyping.
  1. to stimulate, excite, or agitate (usually followed by up ):

    She was hyped up at the thought of owning her own car.

  2. to create interest in by flamboyant or dramatic methods; promote or publicize showily:

    a promoter who knows how to hype a prizefight.

  3. to intensify (advertising, promotion, or publicity) by ingenious or questionable claims, methods, etc. (usually followed by up ).
  4. to trick; gull.


noun

  1. exaggerated publicity; hoopla.
  2. an ingenious or questionable claim, method, etc., used in advertising, promotion, or publicity to intensify the effect.
  3. a swindle, deception, or trick.

hype

2

[ hahyp ]

noun

Slang.
  1. Disparaging and Offensive. a person who is addicted to a drug, especially one who uses a hypodermic needle.

hype

1

/ 丑补瑟辫 /

noun

  1. a hypodermic needle or injection
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. intrusually foll byup to inject oneself with a drug
  2. tr to stimulate artificially or excite
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

hype

2

/ 丑补瑟辫 /

noun

  1. a deception or racket
  2. intensive or exaggerated publicity or sales promotion

    media hype

  3. the person or thing so publicized
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. to market or promote (a product) using exaggerated or intensive publicity
  2. to falsify or rig (something)
  3. (in the pop-music business) to buy (copies of a particular record) in such quantity as to increase its ratings in the charts
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藞丑测辫别谤, noun
  • 藞丑测辫颈苍驳, noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of hype1

An Americanism dating back to 1820鈥30, in sense 鈥渢o trick, swindle,鈥 of uncertain origin; subsequent senses perhaps by reanalysis as a shortening of hyperbole

Origin of hype2

First recorded in 1920鈥25; shortening of hypodermic; hypo 1
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of hype1

C20: shortened from hypodermic

Origin of hype2

C20: of unknown origin
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