hype

• IPA^(key): /haɪp/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -aɪp

Clipping of hyperbole.

hype (usually uncountable, plural hypes)

1. (marketing) Promotion or propaganda, especially exaggerated claims.

   After all the hype for the diet plan, only the results ended up slim.

   • 1988, “Don't Believe the Hype”, in It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, performed by Public Enemy:

     Don't believe the hype, it's a sequel / As an equal can I get this through to you

   • 2012, Jeff Bhasker, Nate Ruess, Andrew Dost, Jack Antonoff, “Some Nights”, in Some Nights), performed by fun.:

     I was never one to believe the hype
     Save that for the black and white

   • 2025 June 8, Jonathan Jurejko, “Alcaraz stuns Sinner in extraordinary French Open final”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     The first Grand Slam showpiece between the two dominant players on the ATP Tour had been a tantalising prospect - and it surpassed the hype.

• → Dutch: hype
• → German: Hype

hype (third-person singular simple present hypes, present participle hyping, simple past and past participle hyped)

1. (transitive) To promote heavily; to advertise or build up.

   They started hyping the new magazine months before its release.

   • 2023 August 23, Ben Jones, “A Fast Charge to DMUs' demise?”, in RAIL, number 990, page 30:

     Hydrogen fuel cells are hugely hyped but have yet to prove themselves in the real world beyond a few limited trials or small fleets on the European mainland.

• → Dutch: hypen
• → German: hypen

hype (comparative more hype, superlative most hype)

1. (informal) Hyped; excited.
2. (slang) Excellent, cool.

hype (plural hypes)

1. (slang) Clipping of hypodermic needle.

   hype kit

2. (metonymic, slang, dated) A drug addict.
   • 2001, James Ellroy, The Cold Six Thousand, New York: Knopf, →ISBN, page 90:

     The Mob enforced the No-“H” Law. They tortured pushers. They killed them. Local hypes copped in L.A. Local hypes rode the Heroin Highway.

• hyp

hype (plural hypes)

1. Alternative form of hipe (“wrestling move”).

hype (third-person singular simple present hypes, present participle hyping, simple past and past participle hyped)

1. Alternative form of hipe (“wrestling move”).

• hype (marketing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “hype n.¹”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
• “hype n.²”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
• “hype v.¹”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
• “hype adj.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

From English hype.

• IPA^(key): /ɦɑjp/
• Hyphenation: hype

hype c (plural hypes, diminutive hypeje n)

1. hype

From English hype.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhype/, [ˈhype̞]
• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑi̯p/, [ˈhɑ̝i̯p] (vowel harmony 'a')
• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑi̯pːi/, [ˈhɑ̝i̯pːi] (vowel harmony 'a')
• Rhymes: -ype
• Syllabification^(key): hy‧pe
• Hyphenation^(key): hy‧pe

hype

1. (colloquial or jargon) hype

• hypettää

• “hype”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

Borrowed from English hype.

• IPA^(key): /a.ip/

hype m (plural hypes)

1. (slang) hype

From Proto-West Germanic *hupi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxy.pe/, [ˈhy.pe]

hype m

1. hip

Strong i-stem:

• hypebān
• hypeseax
• hypewærċ

• Middle English: hippe, hip
  • English: hip
  • Scots: hip

• hajp (adapted)

Unadapted borrowing from English hype.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxajp/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ajp
• Syllabification: hype
• Homophone: hajp

hype m inan

1. (slang, marketing) hype [with na (+ accusative) ‘for what’; or with wokół (+ genitive) ‘around/surrounding what’]

   Coordinate term: moda

• hype in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from English hype.

hype m or f (plural hypes)

1. (colloquial) hype (exaggerated excitement or enthusiasm around something)

• hajp

Borrowed from English hype. First attested in 1990.

hype c

1. hype

• hajpa

• hype in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• hype in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)