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hype, a

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hype, a

noun phrase
  1. A high-pressure advocacy or urging; a publicity or public relations invention: The nostalgia for the Fifties is not entirely a media hype/ This is gonna sound like a hype (mid-1960s+)
  2. A person or thing promoted by hype (mid-1960s+)
  3. A swindle; con, scam (1962+)

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