rip off

Verb

rip off (third-person singular simple present rips off, present participle ripping off, simple past and past participle ripped off)

1. (literally) To pull off by ripping.
2. (slang, transitive) To cheat or swindle, especially by charging an excessively high or unfair price.
   • I can't believe how the car dealerships try to rip off their customers.
   • But a personal and almost menopausal crisis brings him back to an Edinburgh he hardly recognises. As if in a Sergio Leone film, Renton has an obscure need to return, to confront the demons of his past, in particular the three guys he ripped off after a drug deal at the end of the last story.2017 January 19, Peter Bradshaw, “T2 Trainspotting review – choose a sequel that doesn't disappoint”, in the Guardian
3. (slang, transitive) To steal.
   • Rechy's The Sexual Outlaw had been a formative book for me, ever since I ripped it off from a hometown bookstore in my early teens (what was I supposed to do, interact with a clerk?)1988 December 18, Christopher Wittke, “Why I Loved Marc Almond From The Minute I First Read About Him”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 23, page 16
   • - Hey, guys. Where'd you get all that great stuff?
     - Five-finger discount, man.1990, "The Telltale Head" (The Simpsons season 1 episode 8)
4. (slang, transitive) To copy, especially illegally.
   • They ripped off the whole idea from their competitors.
   • Robert Johnson and the devil, man / Don't know who's gonna rip off who2013, “Higgs Boson Blues”, in Nick Cave (lyrics), Push the Sky Away, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds