The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word ROB , but the solution may also be RANSACK which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in LA Times).
Rifle crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ROB | 30 % | 3 |
| LOOT | 23 % | 4 |
| RANSACK | 18 % | 7 |
| GUN | 10 % | 3 |
| CARBINE | 8 % | 7 |
| MAUSER | 5 % | 6 |
| RUMMAGE | 3 % | 7 |
| PIECE | 3 % | 5 |
| GARAND | 3 % | 6 |
Why may RANSACK be the right solution?
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Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Rifle
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- loot
- plunder
- strip
- foray
- pillage
- ransack
- go
- despoil
- reave
- pistol
- revolver
- shotgun
Crossword Answer definitions
ROB verb- To steal from, especially using force or violence.
- To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud.
- (used with "of") To deprive (of).
- To burgle.
- To steal.
- To commit robbery.
- To take possession of the ball, puck etc. from.
- The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire until it reaches a syrupy consistency. It is sometimes mixed with honey or sugar.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result ROB
- Carl's son
- Half a Walter Scott novel
- Hold up
- Knock over
- Reiner or Roy
- A Reiner
- Plunder
- Rifle
- Burgle
- Steal from
More clues leading to the result LOOT
More clues leading to the result RANSACK
- Rifle through
- Search with abandon
- Search through for loot
- Rifle
- Search thoroughly
- Plunder
- Loot
- Pillage
- Comb through
- Rummage.
More clues leading to the result GUN
- Beretta, e.g.
- Rev the motor
- Accelerate
- Lock+stock+barrel
- Open the throttle
- Lock, stock, and barrel
- Rev
- Grease ___
- "Smoking" object
- Banger?
More clues leading to the result CARBINE
- Semiautomatic rifle
- Cavalry rifle
- Light rifle.
- Short rifle.
- Infantryman's weapon.
- Rifle.
- Relative of a Garand.
- Firearm.
- Kind of rifle
- Light rifle
More clues leading to the result MAUSER
- German gunsmith
- Eponymous German gun inventor
- Magazine rifle.
- German rifle.
- German inventor of repeating rifle.
- Repeating firearm.
- Rifle.
- Inventor of a repeating rifle.
- German firearm
- Classic German-made rifle
More clues leading to the result RUMMAGE
- ___ sale
- Pick (through)
- Kind of sale
- Search actively
- Odds and ends
- Charity sale goods
- Junk-drawer contents
- Kind of sale for charity.
- See 1 Down.
- Search, as at a sale
More clues leading to the result PIECE
- Put together
- "__ of cake"
- Slice
- Article
- Bishop, e.g.
- Jigsaw fragment
- Section
- Pawn, say
- Fragment
- Player on a board