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RIP OFF
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Remove by pulling or ripping violently and forcefully
Example:
The passing bus tore off her side mirror
Synonyms:
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 consent
Example:
This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation
Synonyms:
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)
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 deceit
Example:
They chiseled me out of my money
Synonyms:
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)
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)
