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n. (alternative spelling of rip-off English)
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A ripoff (or rip-off) is a bad financial transaction. Usually it refers to an incident in which a person is overcharged for something, or receives goods or services not of the standard expected for the price. A ripoff is usually distinguished from a scam in that a scam involves wrongdoing such as fraud; a ripoff may be considered excessive, but not illegal.
Usage examples of "ripoff".
I wrote it, everything just the way I wrote it instead of this sleazy ripoff on the screen they.
Goldman, that if big, rich outfits like Golden State Power spent more on conservation instead of on multimillion dollar ripoffs like Tunipah, we could cut the use of electricity in this country by forty percent?
He had once reduced Chang to a state of catalepsis by describing an avenue in Brooklyn that was lined with fried chicken establishments for miles, all of them ripoffs of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
In those days the place was one big mass of dingy housing projects, ripoff secondhand-car dealers, and old men in pubs drinking bottles of light ale.
Patients' relatives were required to provide and wash the bedclothes, and half of them also seemed to be bringing in painkillers and other drugs bought at the local markets -- some genuine, some ripoffs full of nothing but glucose or magnesium sulphate.
The setups, of course, were a ripoff, and some clubs even charged a membership fee.