transitive. Originally: to overburden (a person) with expense, esp. with taxes; to put (a person) to too great expense. Now usually: to charge (a…

transitive. To charge (a person) too much as a price or payment; to overburden with expense, exactions, etc.; to subject to an additional or extra…

transitive. To tax too heavily. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To make (a person) pay dearly for something. Cf. to pay sauce at sauce, n. phrases 7. Obsolete.

To overtax, surcharge. Obsolete.

transitive. To overcharge; to put too high a price or value on (a person or thing) in a reckoning. Also figurative. Obsolete.

transitive. To charge extortionate prices to; to overcharge.

transitive. (a) To beat, strike hard, hit. to socka person one: to give (him) a hard blow. (b) figurative (U.S.) To give a hard blow to; esp. to take…

To strip (a person, city, country, etc.) of money, property, etc., as a sheep is stripped of its fleece; to make (any one) pay to the uttermost; to…

colloquial or slang. slang (originally U.S.). To impose upon (a person, etc.) by an extortionate charge or price; to charge or tax heavily; to…

figurative. To treat roughly; to drug; to exploit; to overcharge; to force out of; to churn out.

transitive. colloquial. To overcharge (a person) for something.