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What is another word for ripping off?

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Verb

Exploiting someone for one's personal gain

Present participle for to copy or duplicate something, typically illegally

Present participle for to cheat or swindle, especially by overcharging

Present participle for to dishonestly take something for one's own use

Present participle for to steal or rob from a place or person

Present participle for to physically tear or pull off or out

Present participle for to physically tear apart

Present participle for to emulate or follow as a model

An organized attempt to defraud

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Exploiting someone for one's personal gain

patronising^UK

patronizing^US

victimising^UK

victimizing^US

using for one's own ends

doing an injustice to

putting one over on

living off the backs of

treating unfairly

withholding rights from

taking liberties with

taking unfair advantage of

making use of

trespassing

making unfair claims on

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Present participle for to copy or duplicate something, typically illegally

“They pulled in another artist to rip off his work for a quarter of the cost.”

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Present participle for to cheat or swindle, especially by overcharging

victimising^UK

victimizing^US

chiseling^US

chiselling^UK

pulling a fast one on

pulling a swifty on

leading up the garden path

short-changing

giving someone a bum steer

selling down the river

taking to the cleaners

pulling the wool over someone's eyes

pulling a fast one

selling a bill of goods to

leading down the garden path

doing someone in the eye

taking to cleaners

sucking dry

catching out

selling a bill of goods

baulking^UK

balking^US

getting the better of

pulling someone's leg

bleeding someone of something

sucking the life out of

strong-arming

pauperizing

putting the screws to

weaseling^US

welshing

weaselling^UK

nicking

padding

stealing someone blind

pulling something funny

stacking the cards

hitting below the belt

biasing^US

biassing^UK

stage-managing

twisting around your little finger

putting up smoke screen

bunking

giving wrong information to

giving the wrong impression

fabricating

lying

sending on a wild goose chase

distorting

putting on the wrong track

covering up

playing trick on

putting on an act

leading up garden path

propagandizing^US

putting on false front

imposing on

throwing off the scent

manoeuvring^UK

maneuvering^US

putting someone up to something

playing fast and loose with

slipping something over on

giving the runaround

sending on a wild-goose chase

playing someone false

involving

breaking faith with

making a monkey of

making somebody look an idiot

making a monkey out of

going one better than

dissimulating

fudging with

finding a loophole in

tampering with

exploiting a loophole in

departing from the truth

not telling the truth

saying something untrue

inventing a story

telling a terminological inexactitude

committing perjury

telling a falsehood

telling stories

bearing false witness

breaking promise

telling untruths

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“It has been demonstrated that he is unwilling to rip off his customers with a shoddy product.”

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Present participle for to dishonestly take something for one's own use

having sticky fingers

dipping into the public purse

committing fraud

committing white-collar crime

stealing money

defrauding someone of

cheating

putting hand in cookie jar

having one's hand in the till

thieving from

hijacking

gaining possession of

vandalizing^US

moonlight requisitioning

vandalising^UK

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“Who's going to travel upstate just to rip off a TV set and a few cheap knives and forks?”

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Present participle for to steal or rob from a place or person

“Pretty much anywhere though, if you commit a crime, you most likely will be recorded on camera. Rip off a convenience store, you are on film.”

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Present participle for to physically tear or pull off or out

unraveling^US

unravelling^UK

putting at a distance

becoming disconnected

keeping at arm's length

considering in isolation

removing from context

considering out of context

losing the affection of

withdrawing the affections of

turning off

making indifferent

driving a wedge between

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“Perhaps we just need to rip off the bandaid and give it a good dose of Dettol.”

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Present participle for to physically tear apart

“We had to rip off your shirt in order to get to the superficial cuts underneath it.”

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Present participle for to emulate or follow as a model

Noun

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An organized attempt to defraud

bit of sharp practice

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