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highway-robbery

highway-robbery is the alternative form of highway robbery.

Meaning of highway robbery

Noun

highway robbery (countable and uncountable, plural highway robberies)

  1. (historical, literal) The act of robbing a traveler on a public road.
    Synonyms:
    high pad, padding
  2. (idiomatic, uncountable, usually) Excessive or exorbitant prices.
    • They think they can charge $400 for a shirt? That's highway robbery.

Forms of highway-robbery

pluralhighway-robberies

Questions about highway-robbery

What is highway-robbery the alternative form of?
Highway-robbery is the alternative form of highway robbery.

Words near highway-robbery in the dictionary

  1. highway robberies
  2. highway robbery
  3. highway yellow
  4. highway yellows
  5. highway-robberies
  6. highway-robbery
  7. highwayed
  8. highwayless
  9. highwaylike
  10. highwayman
  11. highwaymen

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