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fleecingnoun the exaction of a grossly excessive charge for goods or servicesthe fleecing of the summer tourists seems to be a time-honored tradition on that resort island extortion, gouging, highway robbery, overcharging cheating, chiseling(or chiselling), defrauding, skinning, swindling to rob by the use of trickery or threatsswindlers who use the telephone to fleece senior citizens out of their savings beating, bilking, bleeding, cheating, chiseling(or chiselling), chousing, conning, cozening, defrauding, diddling, doing, doing in, euchring, fiddling, flimflamming, gaffing, gypping, hosing(slang), hustling, mulcting, nobbling(British slang), plucking, reaming, ripping off, 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 |