rip-off
1 of 2noun
ˈrip-ˌȯf 
1
: an act or instance of stealing : theft
also : a financial exploitation
2
: a usually cheap exploitive imitation
rip off
2 of 2verb
ripped off; ripping off; rips off
transitive verb
1
a
: rob
also : cheat, defraud
b
: steal
2
: to copy or imitate blatantly or unscrupulously
3
: to perform, achieve, or score quickly or easily
ripped off 10 straight points
Synonyms
Noun
- grab
- heist
- pinch
- snatching
- swiping
- theft
Verb
- burglarize
- burgle
- knock off
- knock over
- rob
- steal (from)
- take off [slang]
See all Synonyms & Antonyms 
Example Sentences
Verb the teens ripped off the store where they had been working for the summer the thief ripped off some jewelry as soon as no one was looking
Word History
First Known Use
Noun
1969, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Verb
1967, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
ripping off
verb
1
as in robbing
to remove valuables from (a place) unlawfully the teens ripped off the store where they had been working for the summer Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- robbing
- knocking over
- taking off
- knocking off
- stealing (from)
- burglarizing
- breaking in
- sticking up
- sacking
- looting
- burgling
- stripping
- plundering
- cheating
- rifling
- ravishing
- ransacking
- plucking
- holding up
- pillaging
- despoiling
- bleeding
- exploiting
- defrauding
- swindling
- stinging
- shortchanging
- sticking
- spoiling
- fleecing
- mulcting
- hustling
- squeezing
- chiseling
- skinning
- cozening
- mugging
- rooking
- rolling
- chiselling
2
as in stealing
to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep the thief ripped off some jewelry as soon as no one was looking Synonyms & Similar Words
- stealing
- swiping
- walking off with
- lifting
- running off with
- making off with
- grabbing
- knocking over
- making away with
- pilfering
- robbing
- thieving
- snitching
- snatching
- misappropriating
- appropriating
- filching
- pinching
- hooking
- pocketing
- purloining
- boosting
- nipping
- nicking
- hijacking
- taking
- picking
- heisting
- looting
- plundering
- seizing
- sacking
- burglarizing
- pillaging
- carjacking
- shoplifting
- poaching
- rustling
- kidnapping
- rifling
- grasping
- highjacking
- abducting
- collaring
- nailing
- sponging
- mooching
- spiriting
- kidnaping
- shanghaiing
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- buying
- purchasing
- giving
- presenting
- contributing
- handing over
- donating
- bestowing
3
as in cheating
to rob by the use of trickery or threats an investigation revealed that a whole slew of suppliers had been ripping off the defense department Synonyms & Similar Words
- cheating
- squeezing
- stinging
- plucking
- shaking down
- hustling
- doing
- sticking
- doing in
- beating
- screwing
- bleeding
- taking for a ride
- taking to the cleaners
- selling a bill of goods to
- flimflamming
- deceiving
- thimblerigging
- euchring
- chousing
- defrauding
- shorting
- swindling
- shortchanging
- fiddling
- victimizing
- reaming
- fleecing
- mulcting
- bilking
- tricking
- rooking
- skinning
- suckering
- exploiting
- conning
- gaffing
- cozening
- diddling
- chiseling
- stiffing
- hosing
- nobbling
- fooling
- betraying
- wrenching
- skunking
- chiselling
- clipping
- extorting
- gouging
- milking
- soaking
- wringing
- roping (in)
- overcharging
- nicking
- wresting
- duping
- gulling
- bitching
- bamboozling
- double-crossing
- fast-talking