gazumph

gazumph
[ga”zumpf]
1. tv. to raise the price of a house after it is sold.
□ They tried to gazumph the price at the closing.
□ I just knew that the owner was going to gazumph the final figure.
2. tv. to subject someone to the raising of the price of a house after it is sold.
□ They tried to gazumph me!
□ If they try to gazumph you, tell them to forget the deal.

Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions. 2015.

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  • gazump — vb British to cheat (in a house purchase) by rais ing the price at the last moment, after agreement has been reached but before contracts have been formalised. An old expression from the language of swin dlers, revived to denote a practice which… …   Contemporary slang

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