rip off
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.25 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Misspelling of rip-off.
verb
To cheat or swindle, especially by charging an excessively high or unfair price.
Slang; Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "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."
- ""Nobody wants to feel ripped off, do they? And when you look at refurbishments like this, you must make sure the basics are done well, because that is what makes up most of the passenger experience. It makes people come back," says Darney."
- "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."
- "They ripped off the whole idea from their competitors."