rip off
verb
- to exploit, steal
Wiktionary
noun
- Misspelling of rip-off.
verb
- To pull off by ripping.
- To cheat or swindle, especially by charging an excessively high or unfair price.
“I can't believe how the car dealerships try to rip off their customers.”
“But a personal and almost menopausal crisis brings him back to an Edinburgh he hardly recognises. As if in a Sergio Leone film, Renton has an obscure need to return, to confront the demons of his past, in particular the three guys he ripped off after a drug deal at the end of the last story.”
- To steal.
“Rechy's The Sexual Outlaw had been a formative book for me, ever since I ripped it off from a hometown bookstore in my early teens (what was I supposed to do, interact with a clerk?)”
“- Hey, guys. Where'd you get all that great stuff? - Five-finger discount, man.”
- To copy, especially illegally.
“They ripped off the whole idea from their competitors.”
“Robert Johnson and the devil, man / Don't know who's gonna rip off who”