Rip off meaning
Rip off is a phrasal verb with 3 meanings. One of them is to informally cheat a person by making them pay an excessive price.
- Past simple
- ripped off
- Past participle
- ripped off
- -ing form
- ripping off
What rip off means
overcharge dishonestlyC2informal
To informally cheat a person by making them pay an excessive price
Tourists complained that the taxi driver had ripped them off.
2 more meanings of rip off are in the Retite app, each with an example and a translation into your language.
More meanings in the appSimilar phrasal verbs
With off: turn off, take off, cut off, go off, put off, break off, keep off, start off, tick off, get off.
Common questions
What does rip off mean?
It has 3 meanings. One of them is to informally cheat a person by making them pay an excessive price. The other 2, each with an example and a translation into your language, are in the Retite app.
What is the past tense of rip off?
Ripped off, which is also its past participle.
Meanings and examples are written by Retite. The meanings follow Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Levels are based on the CEFR-J Wordlist and set by Retite.
