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RIPOFF

"RIPOFF" is a common misspelling or typo for: rip off, rip-off.


Specialty Definition: RIPOFF

DomainDefinition

Computing

Ripoff n. Synonym for chad, sense 1. Source: Jargon File.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Usage: RIPOFF

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Still a ripoff. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: RIPOFF

DomainTitle

Books

  • Cholesterol and Your Health-The Great American Ripoff Part 2 (reference)

  • Employee Ownership: Revolution or Ripoff (reference)

  • Life Insurance: The Myth the Promise the Ripoff (reference)

  • Ripoff (reference)

  • The Ultimate Ripoff (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • The Rockford Files: The Big Ripoff (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: RIPOFF

"RIPOFF" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "RIPOFF" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: RIPOFF

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

ripoff

68

report ripoff

30

report.com ripoff

4

carleton ripoff sheet

3

capital fairbanks ripoff

3

online resume ripoff

2

chrono ripoff trigger

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: RIPOFF

Language Translations for "RIPOFF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

欺骗 (Bamboozle, Bamboozled, Bamboozling, Deceit, Deceive, Deceived, Deceiving, Deception, Deceptive, Delude, Deluded, Deluding, Foxed, Foxing, fraud, fraudulent, humbug, Impostrous, Imposturous, Kidded, Kidding, rip-off, Tricked, tricked-out, Tricking). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ipoffray

   

Russian 

  

обкрадывать кража. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

guljenje do gole kože. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: RIPOFF

Derivations

Words beginning with "RIPOFF": ripoffs. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "RIPOFF"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "RIPOFF" (pronounced ri"pô'f)
4-i" p ô' ftipoff.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: RIPOFF

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "f-f-i-o-p-r"

-2 letters: prof, riff.

-3 letters: fir, fop, for, fro, iff, off, poi, pro, rif, rip.

-4 letters: if, of, op, or, pi.

 Words containing the letters "f-f-i-o-p-r"
 

+1 letter: ripoffs.

 

+2 letters: offprint.

 

+3 letters: fireproof, offprints, offspring.

 

+4 letters: fireproofs, hippogriff, offprinted, offsprings, proffering.

 

+5 letters: fireproofed, hippogriffs, offprinting, pilferproof.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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