What is Gazump?
1.
Also gesumph or gesumpf, said to have come into the British property business from the second-hand car trade in the 1970s. originally means to swindle, cheat or steal, now means to outbid (peculiar to the English and Welsh housing market). Ultimately derived from a German word meaning to put into a swamp or, in the modern idiom, to dump in the shit. first recorded in English in 1928
the bastards gazumped me
2.
1) To be ripped off by a greedy real estate agent. Usually when the price for
real estate or land is raised to a higher price than was verbally agreed on before.
2) The sound made by two Hippopotamuses
1) I got gazumped when I tried to buy that house - after we agreed on a price, they changed the contract.
2) I saw a documentary about hippos gazumping each other..
