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Every time I listen to oral arguments in a politically loaded case, she asks at least one question or offers a hypo that is simply unanswerable unless conservatives want to concede the case.
Baby female Hypo IMG Specter, fresh shed 🤍🖤🤍🖤 #snakecountry #imgspecter #hypospecter #specterboa #vpirdrbea
See how the above table has SHC014 and WIV16? two viruses that were going to be used as backbones in the famously unfunded DEFUSE grant proposal. They are even further away from sc2 than RaTG13 is. bsky.app/profile…
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(slang) A hypochondriac.
1837 Abraham Lincoln: Tell your sister I dont want to hear any more about selling out and moving. That gives me the hypo whenever I think of it. (Letter to Mary S. Owens, May 7. 1837, Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 1.
“Every time I listen to oral arguments in a politically loaded case, she asks at least one question or offers a hypo that is simply unanswerable unless conservatives want to concede the case.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Baby female Hypo IMG Specter, fresh shed 🤍🖤🤍🖤 #snakecountry #imgspecter #hypospecter #specterboa #vpirdrbea”
— Bluesky· May 2026“See how the above table has SHC014 and WIV16? two viruses that were going to be used as backbones in the famously unfunded DEFUSE grant proposal. They are even further away from sc2 than RaTG13 is. bsky.app/profile/hypo...”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(photography, informal) (also called hyposulfite of soda), a photographic fixing agent.
whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off--then, I account it high time to get to sea a…
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(obsolete) ; a fit of hypochondria; a morbid depression.
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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.
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Hypochondria.
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(colloquial, dated) To make melancholy.