to cheat someone, especially by charging them too much money for something
to steal something
"The Party Line is this rip-off deal where you pay a lot of money to talk to strangers.
Cars get ripped off all the time round here.
He'd become so dehydrated that he felt pieces of skin rip off with them.
If I could rip off my skin to give life back to those innocents I would.
Livin on the beaches with them lads that rip off tourists, you know, girls and all.
The first thing he did was rip off the bedspread and shake it out.
This government is ripping off the country.
Tourists are worried they’ll get ripped off.
We're looking at a six-figure rip-off here, probably more like a million.
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There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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