RIPPED OFF Synonyms: 137 Similar and Opposite Words

ripped off

verb

past tense of rip off

as in robbed

to remove valuables from (a place) unlawfully the teens ripped off the store where they had been working for the summer

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as in stole

to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep the thief ripped off some jewelry as soon as no one was looking

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as in plucked

to rob by the use of trickery or threats an investigation revealed that a whole slew of suppliers had been ripping off the defense department

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Recent Examples of ripped off The Rams just ripped off the second-biggest second-half comeback in NCAA Tournament history. —

Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2026 The Tigers tried to deliver a knockout punch in the third, pushing the lead to 13 but Steele and Harrington ripped off nine straight to cut it to 32-28 late in the third. —

Matt Roy, Boston Herald, 14 Mar. 2026 Some names had been ripped off the lobby marquee, but were still billing Medicare from that address. —

William La Jeunesse, FOXNews.com, 13 Mar. 2026 Don't count on an open scrimmage everywhere Several notable programs are declining to go back to the way things were now that the proverbial Band-Aid has been ripped off. —

David Eckert, Austin American Statesman, 13 Mar. 2026 Yes, everyone was slowly getting ripped off, but at least they were getting ripped off together. —

Mckay Coppins, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2026 Liu said his 45-year-old driver was injured and his vehicle destroyed in the crash, adding that the van’s front half was ripped off. —

Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 11 Mar. 2026 Rock Canyon’s renowned student section, which showed out on force on Friday, ripped off three consecutive chants with the Jaguars’ win in the bag. —

Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 6 Mar. 2026 One filled with phone booths and newsstands and Gray’s Papaya on practically every grimy street corner — a New York where getting your bicycle ripped off was almost as much a rite of passage as stomping on your first cockroach. —

Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 5 Mar. 2026

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To prop up his strawman arguments, Sheridan introduces the Big Apple by showing Stacy’s twentysomething daughter, Paige (Elle Chapman), getting punched in the face and robbed while walking down Fifth Avenue.

— Ben Travers, IndieWire, 13 Mar. 2026
Masuka said police suggested this means no foul play was involved and that Davis was not robbed.

— Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2026