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hypey

hypey adjective: having significant hype; heavily promoted or highly anticipated.

Adjective

hypey (comparative hypier, superlative hypiest)

  1. (informal) Having significant hype; heavily promoted or highly anticipated.
    • As able as Boies is, Miller's hyperbole strains credibility. But he's only slightly less hypey than the rest of the media is being with news of Boies's arrival.2001, Jake Tapper, Down & Dirty: The Plot to Steal the Presidency, Hachette UK, →ISBN
    • The formal is about 95 per cent hype and hysteria, and about 5 per cent actual formal, and the pre-formal gathering of parents and kids is about as hypey and hysterical as it gets.2007 September 21, Nina Ubaldi, “Lose the hype and formals can be fun”, in The Sydney Morning Herald

Forms of hypey

comparativehypier
superlativehypiest

Origin of hypey

From hype + -y.

Questions about hypey

What does hypey mean?
Hypey means having significant hype; heavily promoted or highly anticipated.
What part of speech is hypey?
Hypey is an adjective.

Words near hypey in the dictionary

  1. hypesthesias
  2. hypesthesic
  3. hypethral
  4. hypex
  5. hypexes
  6. hypey
  7. hypha
  8. hyphae
  9. hyphaelike
  10. hyphaema
  11. hyphaemas

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