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gazump  

   ( gazumps    3rd person present)   ( gazumping    present participle)   ( gazumped    past tense & past participle  ) If you are gazumped by someone, they agree to sell their house to you, but then sell it to someone else who offers to pay a higher price.  
  (BRIT)  
INFORMAL      verb   usu passive  
In France you cannot be gazumped...      be V-ed  
♦   gazumping      n-uncount  
During the 1980s property boom, gazumping was common.     
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gazumping, gaze, game, gasp

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gazump
v.
raise a price after agreeing on a lower one
Common real estate term but 'of uncertain origin'. However WW1 Australian soldier's diary records: "Huge rubber gun gazumps were falling all over the town [Watten]..." A weapon?

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