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rip off

verb

  1. to exploit, steal
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Wiktionary

noun

  1. Misspelling of rip-off.

verb

  1. To pull off by ripping.
  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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