Synonyms of hosing

hosing

verb

present participle of hose, slang

as in squeezing

to rob by the use of trickery or threats

when the guy failed to return with our money, we realized that we had been hosed

Synonyms & Similar Words

• squeezing
• stinging
• plucking
• screwing
• cheating
• sticking
• hustling
• beating
• doing
• bleeding
• chiselling
• victimizing
• chiseling
• reaming
• shorting
• defrauding
• stiffing
• fleecing
• skinning
• deceiving
• tricking
• gaffing
• swindling
• mulcting
• fiddling
• rooking
• diddling
• conning
• exploiting
• bilking
• suckering
• shortchanging
• fooling
• shaking down
• wrenching
• nobbling
• thimblerigging
• chousing
• cozening
• ripping off
• betraying
• euchring
• clipping
• extorting
• skunking
• doing in
• soaking
• milking
• gouging
• taking for a ride
• wringing
• flimflamming
• taking to the cleaners
• nicking
• wresting
• overcharging
• selling a bill of goods to
• gulling
• duping
• bitching
• roping (in)
• bamboozling
• double-crossing
• fast-talking