rip-off
敲诈勒索,宰客,敲诈,敲诈勒索罪
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Definitions
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Slang.
- : an act or instance of ripping off another or others; a theft, cheat, or swindle.
- : exploitation, especially of those who cannot prevent or counter it.
- : a copy or imitation.
- : a person who rips off another or others; thief or swindler.
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Examples
Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.
A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.
The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.
The off-year special election into which Duke threw himself drew little media notice at first.
Aaron Paul may play a young Han Solo in the first Star Wars spin-off.
A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.
They ain't got such a rip-roarin' start of us—an' I'm the boy can foller that track from hell t' breakfast an' back again.
Jean was to be an architect—God knows why—but Aristide settled it, definitely, off-hand.
In favorable parts of the trail he must do better than that, to off-set losses of time where the going was most difficult.
There was something about the man that Matt liked, in spite of the deceit he had practised at the start-off of their acquaintance.