English

Alternative forms

• gyp water

Noun

gypwater ‎(uncountable)

1. water with a high level of dissolved Gypsum which can cause diarrhea .

   1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, ISBN 0679744398:

   Rawlins leaned from the saddle and wet his hand in the river and tasted it. It's gypwater, he said.