hyp
Short for hypochondria, hyp is an old-school abbreviation describing the obsessive, anxious belief that you're seriously ill when you're probably just fine.
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Short for hypochondria, hyp is an old-school abbreviation describing the obsessive, anxious belief that you're seriously ill when you're probably just fine. While the full word has gone clinical, hyp still pops up in casual speech when someone is dramatically convinced every headache is a brain tumor or every sniffle is the plague. It captures that particular blend of anxiety and self-drama without the full medical jargon.
Don't worry about him — he's had the hyp ever since he started self-diagnosing on the internet.
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Hypochondria.
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(colloquial, dated) To make melancholy.
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(mathematics) A hypotenuse.
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