rip off
Verb
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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
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is a type of: take - take by forcesubtypes:
- 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
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