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hype
1[ hahyp ]
verb (used with object)
- to stimulate, excite, or agitate (usually followed by up ):
She was hyped up at the thought of owning her own car.
- to create interest in by flamboyant or dramatic methods; promote or publicize showily:
a promoter who knows how to hype a prizefight.
- to intensify (advertising, promotion, or publicity) by ingenious or questionable claims, methods, etc. (usually followed by up ).
noun
- exaggerated publicity; hoopla.
- an ingenious or questionable claim, method, etc., used in advertising, promotion, or publicity to intensify the effect.
- a swindle, deception, or trick.
hype
2[ hahyp ]
noun
- Disparaging and Offensive. a person who is addicted to a drug, especially one who uses a hypodermic needle.
hype
1/ ɪ /
noun
- a hypodermic needle or injection
verb
- intrusually foll byup to inject oneself with a drug
- tr to stimulate artificially or excite
hype
2/ ɪ /
noun
- a deception or racket
- intensive or exaggerated publicity or sales promotion
media hype
- the person or thing so publicized
verb
- to market or promote (a product) using exaggerated or intensive publicity
- to falsify or rig (something)
- (in the pop-music business) to buy (copies of a particular record) in such quantity as to increase its ratings in the charts
Derived Forms
- ˈ, noun
- ˈ辱Բ, noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of hype1
Origin of hype2
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of hype1
Origin of hype2
Example Sentences
A video went viral via the Rupert Murdoch media empire in August, with Fox News and The New York Post hyping footage of armed men in the hallways of an apartment building in Aurora, Colorado.
It's impossible to get through the day without seeing influencers hyping shady schemes or ineffective supplements.
“I don’t think this is fantastic, but it probably will hype the book, which is clearly the ongoing theme here,” Belichick’s email starts.
Fey had been hyping them up all morning, Forte says as he reaches for his own.
Even Fox News is struggling to find something to hype from Trump's first 100 days in office.
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