An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
GAZUMP
gazump
(verb) raise the price of something after agreeing on a lower price
overcharge, soak, surcharge, gazump, fleece, plume, pluck, rob, hook
(verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
gazump (third-person singular simple present gazumps, present participle gazumping, simple past and past participle gazumped)
(British) To swindle; to extort.
(British, Australia, real estate) To raise the selling price of something (especially property) after previously agreeing to a lower one.
(British, Australia, real estate) To buy a property by bidding more than the price of an existing, accepted offer.
(British, Australia) To trump or preempt; to reap the benefit underhandedly from a situation that someone else has worked to create.
Noun
gazump (plural gazumps)
(British, Australia, real estate) The act of gazumping.
Etymology 2
Noun
gazump (plural gazumps)
(US, slang, dated) An automobile.
A politician who takes bribes.
Source: Wiktionary
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ANALYSIS
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
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