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RIP OFF

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove by pulling or ripping violently and forcefullyplay

Example:

The passing bus tore off her side mirror

Synonyms:

rip off; tear away; tear off

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "rip off" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Take without the owner's consentplay

Example:

This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation

Synonyms:

rip; rip off; steal

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "rip off" is one way to...):

take (take by force)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rip off"):

burglarise; burglarize; burgle; heist (commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling)

loot; plunder (take illegally; of intellectual property)

hustle; pluck; roll (sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity)

walk off (take without permission)

cop; glom; hook; knock off; snitch; thieve (take by theft)

rob (take something away by force or without the consent of the owner)

defalcate; embezzle; malversate; misappropriate; peculate (appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use)

bag; pocket (take unlawfully)

lift; plagiarise; plagiarize (take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property)

pirate (copy illegally; of published material)

shoplift (steal in a store)

lift; rustle (take illegally)

abstract; cabbage; filch; hook; lift; nobble; pilfer; pinch; purloin; snarf; sneak; swipe (make off with belongings of others)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody

Sense 3

Meaning:

Deprive somebody of something by deceitplay

Example:

They chiseled me out of my money

Synonyms:

cheat; chisel; rip off

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "rip off" is one way to...):

victimise; victimize (make a victim of)

"Rip off" entails doing...:

cozen; deceive; delude; lead on (be false to; be dishonest with)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rip off"):

beguile; hoodwink; juggle (influence by slyness)

welch; welsh (cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt)

whipsaw (victimize, especially in gambling or negotiations)

beat; bunk (avoid paying)

bilk (cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money)

gip; gyp ((sometimes offensive) to cheat or swindle)

bunco; con; defraud; diddle; goldbrick; hornswoggle; mulct; nobble; rook; scam; short-change; swindle; victimize (deprive of by deceit)

fleece; gazump; hook; overcharge; pluck; plume; rob; soak; surcharge (rip off; ask an unreasonable price)

cozen (cheat or trick)

gazump (raise the price of something after agreeing on a lower price)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody of something

Derivation:

rip-off (the act of stealing)

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