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rip off

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. heist, rip-offverb

    the act of stealing

  2. cheat, rip off, chiselverb

    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"

Wiktionary

  1. rip offverb

    To pull off by ripping

  2. rip offverb

    to steal, cheat or swindle

  3. rip offverb

    to copy, especially illegally

  4. rip offverb

    to charge an exorbitant or unfair rate

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  1. rip off

    A rip off refers to a fraud or a swindle, often involving overcharging or under-delivering in a transaction. It is a situation where someone is knowingly and deliberately deceived, typically with a product or service that is inferior in quality or higher in price than what was promised.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of rip off in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of rip off in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of rip off in a Sentence

  1. Bernie Sanders:

    I will be campaigning in support of the Liberty Union utility proposal which calls for the public ownership of Vermont's private electric companies without compensation to the banks and wealthy stockholders who own the vast majority of stock in these companies, i will also be calling for public ownership of New England Telephone company -- which is probably the single greatest rip-off company in America.

  2. Keith Ellison:

    It just proves one thing, that if Read MoreHe steal and rip off a The Supreme Court justice, then Read MoreHe can try to jam any kind of nasty, racist, ugly policy down the throat's of the American people. But we're not taking it.

  3. Daenerys Targaryen:

    This is going to be a Band-Aid that I’m going to rip off.

  4. Ron Wyden:

    Today, across American we are taking the gloves off to say it’s time to knock off the tax rip-off, no more Cayman Islands tax breaks … no more Wall Street tax breaks.

  5. Richard Peirce:

    If you're a diver with an underwater camera, use it, if you're a snorkeler, rip off your snorkel and use it to poke the shark, i've had a lot of sharks come at me, and it's (been) enough to use a shark billy -- a small metal rod between two and three feet long -- and I've just given them a little nudge on their nose.


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