rip-off [
'rɪp`ɔf]
n. 偷窃
rip-off[ noun ]
the act of stealing
<noun.act>
- With Lagerfeld at the helm, the world's most copied house is stil keeping a jump ahead of the rip-off artists.
- In a letter to Rep. Frank Annunzio (D., Ill.), chairman of the House Banking subcommittee on consumer affairs and coinage, the club's president said members "wholeheartedly agreed that the bullion program was a rip-off."
- Most of them fail, some of them embarrassingly. "Tales of the Gold Monkey," an unabashed rip-off of Indiana Jones, lasted one season on ABC in 1982.
- "The public will continue to view you as a quasi rip-off business and that is not going to change," he said.
- Once outside, the rip-off taxi drivers of earlier days are gone, replaced by cabbies who not only go by the meters but use their limited English to point out the sights.
- Heath, 52, a former Boulder County commissioner, has responded with a series of calls for the government to seize the assets of "S&L villains" to pay for what she calls an outrageous rip-off.