noun, verb
noun [U] (informal, disapproving) advertisements and discussion on television, radio, etc. telling the public about a product and about how good or important it is:
marketing / media hype * Don't believe all the hype-the book isn't that good.
verb [VN] ~ sth (up) (informal, disapproving) to advertise sth a lot and exaggerate its good qualities, in order to get a lot of public attention for it:
This week his much hyped new movie opens in London. * The meeting was hyped up in the media as an important event.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for hype is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does hype appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — hype appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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