Hype

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Excessive publicity and the ensuing commotion: the hype surrounding the murder trial.
  • n. Exaggerated or extravagant claims made especially in advertising or promotional material: "It is pure hype, a gigantic PR job” ( Saturday Review).
  • n. 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).
  • n. 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).
  • v. To publicize or promote, especially by extravagant, inflated, or misleading claims: hyped the new book by sending its author on a promotional tour.
  • n. A hypodermic injection, syringe, or needle.
  • n. A drug addict.
  • v. To stimulate with or as if with a hypodermic injection: "hyped the country up to a purposeless pitch” ( Newsweek).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Promotion or propaganda; especially, exaggerated claims.
  • v. To promote heavily; to advertise or build up.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • See hipe.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. publicize in an exaggerated and often misleading manner
  • n. blatant or sensational promotion
  • Verb Form
    hyped    hypes    hyping   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    publicise    air    publicize    bare    packaging    promotion    promotional material    publicity   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    gipe    gripe    lipe    overripe    pipe    ripe    sipe    snipe    stipe    stripe   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ibm    stim