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Synonyms and Antonyms of ripping off
- the teens ripped off the store where they had been working for the summer
burglarizing, burgling, knocking off, knocking over, robbing, stealing (from), taking off [slang]
despoiling, looting, pillaging, plundering, ravishing, sacking, spoiling, stripping
bleeding, breaking in, cheating, chiseling (or chiselling), cozening, defrauding, exploiting, fleecing, gypping, hustling, mulcting, plucking, rooking, shortchanging, skinning, squeezing, sticking, stinging, swindling
- the thief ripped off some jewelry as soon as no one was looking
- an investigation revealed that a whole slew of suppliers had been ripping off the defense department
beating, bilking, bleeding, cheating, chiseling (or chiselling), chousing, conning, cozening, defrauding, diddling, doing, doing in, euchring, fiddling, fleecing, flimflamming, gaffing, gypping, hosing [slang], hustling, mulcting, nobbling [British slang], plucking, reaming, rooking, screwing, shaking down, shortchanging, shorting, skinning, skunking, squeezing, sticking, stiffing, stinging, suckering, swindling, thimblerigging, victimizing
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