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ripping offverbpresent participle of rip off to remove valuables from (a place) unlawfullythe teens ripped off the store where they had been working for the summer burglarizing, burgling, knocking off, knocking over, robbing, stealing (from), taking off(slang) ransacking, riflingdespoiling, looting, pillaging, plundering, ravishing, sacking, spoiling, strippingbleeding, breaking in, cheating, chiseling(or chiselling), cozening, defrauding, exploiting, fleecing, gypping, hustling, mulcting, plucking, rooking, shortchanging, skinning, squeezing, sticking, stinging, swindlingholding up, mugging, rolling, sticking up to take (something) without right and with an intent to keepthe thief ripped off some jewelry as soon as no one was looking appropriating, boosting(slang), filching, heisting, hooking, lifting, misappropriating, nicking(British slang), nipping, pilfering, pinching, pocketing, purloining, snitching, stealing, swiping, thieving burglarizing, knocking over, robbinglooting, pillaging, plundering, sackingcarjacking, hijacking(also highjacking)picking, riflingpoaching, rustling, shopliftingcollaring, grabbing, grasping, nailing, seizing, snatching, takingmooching, spongingabducting, kidnapping(also kidnaping), shanghaiing, spiriting making away with, making off with, running off with, walking off with buying, purchasingbestowing, contributing, donating, giving, handing over, presenting to rob by the use of trickery or threatsan investigation revealed that a whole slew of suppliers had been ripping off the defense department beating, bilking, bleeding, cheating, chiseling(or chiselling), chousing, conning, cozening, defrauding, diddling, doing, doing in, euchring, fiddling, fleecing, flimflamming, gaffing, gypping, hosing(slang), hustling, mulcting, nobbling(British slang), plucking, reaming, rooking, screwing, shaking down, shortchanging, shorting, skinning, skunking, squeezing, sticking, stiffing, stinging, suckering, swindling, thimblerigging, victimizing extorting, wrenching, wresting, wringingclipping, gouging, nicking, overcharging, soakingexploiting, milkingdeceiving, duping, fooling, gulling, trickingroping (in)betraying, bitching, double-crossingbamboozling, fast-talking selling a bill of goods to, taking for a ride, taking to the cleaners |