rip off

verb

1. tr to tear violently or roughly (from)
2. slang.
   adverb to steal from or cheat (someone)

noun

1. slang.
   an article or articles stolen
2. slang.
   a grossly overpriced article
3. slang.
   the act of stealing or cheating

Example Sentences

The last band I was in was kind of a Sonic Youth rip-off band, and I thought that that was my calling.

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This is why capitalism, he concludes triumphantly, is “no rip-off.”

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I even liked her in House at the End of the Street, the low-budget Silence of the Lambs rip-off that came out last fall.

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It was probably a concept Wallace got from The Ultimate Rip-off, another IRS novel.

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Today, the GOP released their Pledge to America, their rip-off of the popular and galvanizing 1994 Contract with America.

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