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ripped off

/rip/US // rɪp //UK // (rɪp) //

被骗了,受骗了,受骗,被骗

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
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    ripped, rip·ping.

    • : to cut or tear apart in a rough or vigorous manner: to rip open a seam; to rip up a sheet.
    • : to cut or tear away in a rough or vigorous manner: to rip bark from a tree.
    • : to saw in the direction of the grain.
    • : Digital Technology. to copy to a hard drive or mobile device, typically by extracting the raw data and changing the file format in the process: Can you rip this CD for me?Compare burn. See also DAE
v.无主动词 verb
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    ripped, rip·ping.

    • : to become torn apart or split open: Cheap cloth rips easily.
    • : Informal. to move with violence or great speed: The sports car ripped along in a cloud of dust and exhaust fumes.
n.名词 noun
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    • : a rent made by ripping; tear.
    • : Slang. a cheat, swindle, or theft; ripoff: The average consumer doesn't realize that the new tax is a rip.
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    • : rip into, Informal. to attack physically or verbally; assail.
    • : rip off, Slang. to steal or pilfer.to rob or steal from.to swindle, cheat, or exploit; take advantage of: phony charity appeals that rip off a gullible public.
    • : rip out, Informal. to utter angrily, as with an oath or exclamation.

Phrases

  • ripe old age
  • rip into
  • rip off
  • let it rip

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Her status as a mysterious, cloistered figure had been solidified after a decade of speculation and lionization on Internet message boards and blogs as crate diggers shared rips of her impossibly rare LPs.

  • We’d stepped through the front door of our neighborhood library on Capitol Hill when I heard the rip of the Velcro fasteners on his little-boy sneakers.

  • The company also has a lifetime warranty for any rips or frays, which is pretty bold given that sheets, like all cloth, inevitably show signs of wear.

  • One of the interview questions asking about vacuum decay was incorrectly presented as being about the big rip scenario.

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

  • Instead of decorating every face on the street, Google Glass hit a contrarian rip tide.

  • Not that the Shakespearean riff on/rip off is limited to novels.

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

  • Though the good gut bugs are likely beneficial for some, companies are using the label to rip off consumers.

  • 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.

  • Then I tied up the rip in the meal sack with a string, so it wouldn't leak no more, and took it and my saw to the canoe again.

  • In a word, he did rip up all that could be said that was unworthy, and in the basest terms they could be spoken in.

  • You must read for yourselves the famous story of Rip Van Winkle and the nap he took.

  • Buck begun to cry and rip, and 'lowed that him and his cousin Joe (that was the other young chap) would make up for this day yet.