Sekirov Dictionary

rip-off

noun 4
rip off verb 4
forms 5

noun4

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A bad deal; an unfair or exorbitant price or rate.
- In those days, a hamburger was fifteen cents, and if someone was charging a quarter for a bowl of soup, it was regarded as a rip-off.
- Eighty-seven bucks for a three-ounce piece of fish? What a rip-off! Haute cuisine or not!
•
A copy, especially one that is illegal or inferior.
- Are you sure that's a real Rolex and not just a cheap rip-off?
•
A scam.
- He promised to mail me a refund, but it was just a rip-off.
•
A theft or robbery.
- He noticed that the window was ajar, and right away he knew in his gut that a rip-off had probably occurred.

rip off verb4

To pull off by ripping.
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(slang) 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.
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(slang) To copy, especially illegally.
- They ripped off the whole idea from their competitors.
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(slang) 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?) — 1988

forms

ripped off · ripping off · rips off · rip offs · rip-offs

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