hypos

/HH AY0 P OW0 Z/

noun

1
Melancholy; a fit of ‘hypochondria’; a morbid depression.
“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.”
2
A hypochondriac.
3
Sodium thiosulphate, a photographic fixing agent.
4
A hypoglycaemia attack in a person with diabetes.
5
The substance sodium hyposulfite.
6
A hypodermic syringe.
7
Hypothecation.
8
(in the study of law) A hypothetical case.
9
A hypomelanistic snake.

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