rip off

1. Deprive somebody of something by deceit (synset 202579332)
   "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"
   entail: cozen, deceive, delude, lead on - be false to; be dishonest with
   is a type of: victimise, victimize - make a victim of
   subtypes:

   • gazump - raise the price of something after agreeing on a lower price
   • cozen - cheat or trick
   • fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge - rip off; ask an unreasonable price
   • bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize - deprive of by deceit
   • gip, gyp - (sometimes offensive) to cheat or swindle
   • bilk - cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money
   • beat, bunk - avoid paying
   • whipsaw - victimize, especially in gambling or negotiations
   • welch, welsh - cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt
   • beguile, hoodwink, juggle - influence by slyness
   same as: cheat, chisel
2. Take without the owner's consent (synset 202326737)
   "Someone stole my wallet on the train"; "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation"
   is a type of: take - take by force
   subtypes:

   • abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe - make off with belongings of others
   • lift, rustle - take illegally
   • shoplift - steal in a store
   • pirate - copy illegally; of published material
   • lift, plagiarise, plagiarize - take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
   • bag, pocket - take unlawfully
   • defalcate, embezzle, malversate, misappropriate, peculate - appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use
   • rob - take something away by force or without the consent of the owner
   • cop, glom, hook, knock off, snitch, thieve - take by theft
   • walk off - take without permission
   • hustle, pluck, roll - sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
   • loot, plunder - take illegally; of intellectual property
   • burglarise, burglarize, burgle, heist - commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling
   same as: rip, steal
3. Remove by pulling or ripping violently and forcefully (synset 200179012)
   "The passing bus tore off her side mirror"
   is a type of: remove, take, take away, withdraw - remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
   same as: tear away, tear off

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