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rip offs

rip offs is the plural of rip off.

Meaning of 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.
  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
  4. (slang, transitive) To copy, especially illegally.
    • They ripped off the whole idea from their competitors.

Questions about rip offs

What is rip offs the plural of?
Rip offs is the plural of rip off.

Words near rip offs in the dictionary

  1. rip into
  2. rip it up
  3. rip off
  4. rip off the band-aid
  5. rip off the bandage
  6. rip offs
  7. rip on
  8. rip one
  9. rip out
  10. rip rap
  11. rip raps

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rip offs (page history and authors); rip off (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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