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rip off
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb rip off has 1 sense
- rip off(v = verb.social) cheat, chisel - deprive somebody of something by deceit; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money" is one way to victimise, victimize
Derived form noun rip-off1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody of something
THESAURUS
rip off
burglary, caper, cheat, clinquant, commit robbery, counterfeit, deception, dummy, fake, fakement, filch, flam, forgery, frame-up, fraud, grab, heist, hijack, hoax, hold up, humbug, imitation, impostor, job, junk, knock over, lift, mock, mug, paste, phony, pinch, pinchbeck, put-on, put-up job, rob, robbery, sham, shoddy, simulacrum, spoof, steal, stick up, swindle, theft, tinsel, whited sepulcher
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