Etymology

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Today it means: To swindle; to extort. Full definition →

Yiddish גזלן
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The story

  1. Yiddish · derived fromגזלן“thief, bandit”
  2. English todaygazump

Possibly from Yiddish גזלן (gazlen, “thief, bandit”).

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