Definitions

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  • noun US, slang, dated An automobile.
  • verb UK To swindle; to extort.
  • verb UK, Australia, real estate To raise the selling price of something (especially property) after previously agreeing to a lower one.
  • verb UK, Australia, real estate To buy a property by bidding more than the price of an existing, accepted offer.
  • verb UK, Australia To trump or preempt; to reap the benefit underhandedly from a situation that someone else has worked to create.

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  • verb raise the price of something after agreeing on a lower price
  • verb rip off; ask an unreasonable price

Etymologies

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Possibly from גזלן (gazlen, "thief, bandit").

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  • 2/6/2009 Headline from the UK Telegraph:

    "Gazumping returns to London Property Market"

    "a common practice in property sales where the seller of the home accepts one offer to buy the property but later rejects it to accept a higher offer by another buyer."

    February 6, 2009