rip sb off

Examples of rip

rip
His own interest had been kindled by a recent exchange in which he, indeed, felt "ripped off" by one of his publishers.
This rip-off of the old feminist slogan that the personal is political is, however, totally self-defeating.
For those who follow this trail of rip-offs and unapologetic merchants of self-aggrandisement, there is nothing original here.
When did she say how she ripped her dress?
She is both a horsewoman and a cyclist, but while hunting, her skirt is ripped off in a fall and carried off by her steed.
Shallow-water mats were ripped up and distributed as detrital matter by waves and currents to surrounding environments.
During the first slow phase the cloud expands gradually as electrons are ripped off by the electric field of the laser pulse.
Thus, a rhyming couplet like lip/rip is considerably less frequent than lip/zip or lip/tip.
He was up in the tree when the boy on the bicycle ripped off the uh the pears.
In a corner, one of the musicians, barefoot, was ripping various things into shreds, searching for (and finding) the sound of breaking bones.
He is ripped out of his cities, neighbourhoods and farms (his historical environment), and he is thrown into the desert (his mythical environment).
Lawbreakers were essentially those who left the public highways and trespassed or ripped wood from the roadside hedges and fences.
Lower bedding planes are erosional, planar or scouring, and show erosional features; flute casts, tool marks, rip-up clasts.
Lower bedding planes are erosional, planar or scouring and show erosional features; tool marks, flute casts, gutter casts, load casts, and rip-up clasts.
They ripped tramway lines and placed municipal carts across the road to block the traffic.
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