hypoing

Verb

hypo (third-person singular simple present hypos, present participle hypoing, simple past and past participle hypoed)

1. (intransitive, slang) To have a hypoglycaemia attack.
   • My top lip tingles, and I'm clearly hypoing but I don't know what my sugar level is, it was 9.8 when I went to bed, which is fine. I've hypoed a lot lately.2019, Charlotte Bates, quoting Alice, Vital Bodies: Living with Illness, Bristol: Policy Press, →ISBN, page unknown
2. (transitive) To administer a hypodermic injection to.
   • Bacterium and virus count—as usual. Lots of it. Apparently not too dangerous. Not with every single soul hypoed and immunized and hormoned to his eyebrows.1956, Clifford Simak, Strangers in the Universe, New York: Simon and Schuster, page 113
3. (figuratively, transitive) To stimulate or boost, as if by administering a hypodermic injection. (Compare hype.)
   • Stations across the country hypoed the Beatle excitement with offers of fan club cards, free records. Beatle contests of all sorts, and a continual push on the Capitol, Swan, Vee Jay and MGM releases by the group.1964 February 29, Jack Maher, “Beatles Bug As They Command Air”, in Billboard, volume 76, number 9, page 8
4. (transitive) To stimulate or boost (the economy) by the injection of cash, such as with quantitative easing
   • In the last three peacetime years before the Vietnam War expenditures began to hypo the economy, 1961, 1962, and 1963, unemployment in those years averaged six percent.1971, Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, volume 29, page 1727

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