The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word ROB , but the solution may also be SCAM which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).
Rip off crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ROB | 23 % | 3 |
| SCAM | 18 % | 4 |
| STEAL | 7 % | 5 |
| GLOM | 6 % | 4 |
| GYP | 6 % | 3 |
| SWIPE | 6 % | 5 |
| FLEECE | 5 % | 6 |
| HOSE | 3 % | 4 |
| DETACH | 3 % | 6 |
| BILK | 3 % | 4 |
| FILCH | 2 % | 5 |
| DEFRAUD | 2 % | 7 |
| THIEVE | 2 % | 6 |
| SOAK | 2 % | 4 |
| CHEAT | 2 % | 5 |
| ROOK | 1 % | 4 |
| THEFT | 1 % | 5 |
| CAPER | 1 % | 5 |
| TEAR | 1 % | 4 |
| PILFER | 1 % | 6 |
| APE | 1 % | 3 |
| HEIST | 1 % | 5 |
| CON | 1 % | 3 |
| STUB | 1 % | 4 |
| TEAR LOOSE | 1 % | 10 |
| HOAX | 1 % | 4 |
| COP | 1 % | 3 |
Why may SCAM be the right solution?
"SCAM" is the right solution for "Rip-off" because a scam is a dishonest scheme or fraud designed to deceive someone, often resulting in financial loss. This fits the idea of being ripped off or cheated.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Rip off
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- cheat
- beat
- sell short
- take for
- yoink
- knock off
- carry off
- run away with
- rip off the band-aid
- mug off
- walk off with
- pull one over
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 SCAM
- Sting
- Get-rich-quick offering, often
- Hoodwink
- Shell game, e.g.
- Con game
- Con man's trick
- Deceptive act
- Pyramid scheme?
- Three-card monte, for one
- Flimflam
More clues leading to the result STEAL
- Real bargain
- Shoplift
- Unbelievable bargain
- Purloin
- Take a base?
- Go quietly
- Tiptoe
- Take the wrong way?
- Grab an album using BitTorrent, e.g.
- Pinch
More clues leading to the result GLOM
- Latch onto
- Seize, slangily
- Swipe
- Latch on to
- Latch (onto)
- Snatch
- Seize (onto)
- Grab, in slang
- Grab hold of
- Rip off
More clues leading to the result GYP
More clues leading to the result SWIPE
- Apply a five-finger discount to
- Lift
- Steal, like the fox in "Dora the Explorer"
- Pick pockets
- Filch
- Credit-card action
- Make off with
- Rip off
- Liberate, so to speak
- Take without permission
More clues leading to the result FLEECE
- Ewe's coat
- Ovine coat
- Warm coat
- Defraud
- Swindle
- Take to the cleaners
- It grows on ewe
- Sheep product
- Jason's quest
- Bamboozle
More clues leading to the result HOSE
- Firefighter's need
- Stockings
- Tights
- Gardener's need
- Gardening aid
- Leg coverings
- Nylons
- Water down
- Some legwear
- "___ Who Kill" (Chloë Sevigny series)
More clues leading to the result DETACH
- Take apart
- Rip off
- Take off
- Break off
- Disengage
- Disconnect, as a notepad page
- Separate
- Become separated
- Remove, as a coupon
- Unfasten
More clues leading to the result BILK
More clues leading to the result FILCH
More clues leading to the result DEFRAUD
More clues leading to the result THIEVE
More clues leading to the result SOAK
- Overcharge
- Tend to a stain
- Drench
- Laze in the bubble bath
- Washer cycle
- Part of a wash cycle
- Charge too much
- Linger in the tub
- Long bath
- Post-game activity
More clues leading to the result CHEAT
- Deceive by trickery
- Shortchange, say
- Peek at the answer
- Peek during a test
- Break the rules
- Steal answers
- Get an A by stealth
- Refuse to play by the rules
- Swindle
- Use a crib sheet
More clues leading to the result ROOK
- Castling requirement
- Cheat
- Versification
- Chess piece
- Kasparov's piece
- One of Deep Blue's men
- He guards the corner of the chessboard
- Corner piece
- Castling piece
- Rank-and-file chess piece
More clues leading to the result THEFT
- Crime
- Swiping
- It's a steal
- Jesse James's crime
- Piracy, e.g.
- Plagiarism
- Taking things the wrong way?
- Larceny
- Burglary
- Rip-off artist's crime
More clues leading to the result CAPER
- Anchovy go-with
- Antic
- Prank
- Rip-off
- Tartar-sauce ingredient
- Shamus' investigation
- Crime, to a shamus
- Crime job
- Do some rug-cutting
- Pickled flower bud
More clues leading to the result TEAR
- Eye drop
- Kind of gas
- Sorrowful drop
- Certain drop
- Eyedrop?
- Pull apart
- React to onion-slicing
- Rip apart
- Speed
- Dotted-line instruction
More clues leading to the result PILFER
More clues leading to the result APE
- "Going __!" (Danza bomb)
- Act like
- Brutish one
- Copy
- Lummox
- Make like
- O'Neill's "The Hairy __"
- O'Neill's hairy title character
- Rue Morgue culprit
- Aldous Huxley's "__ and Essence"
More clues leading to the result HEIST
- Armored-car job
- Bank job
- "The Town" climax
- Crime movie plot
- This is a robbery
- Robbery
- Stickup
- Bonnie and Clyde job
- Armed robbery
- "The Lavender Hill Mob" caper
More clues leading to the result CON
- Jailer's charge
- Man in the pen
- Joint tenant
- Kind of game
- Take for a ride
- Thimblerig
- Swindle
- __ brio
- One who didn't dodge a charge?
- Spam, often (and the start of a split order of rice porridge)
More clues leading to the result STUB
- Ticket end
- BUTS going backwards?
- Tail end
- Theater throwaway
- Toe mishap
- End of a ticket
- Movie souvenir
- Movie memento
- Bang, as a toe
- Proof of purchase
More clues leading to the result TEAR LOOSE
More clues leading to the result HOAX
- Mare's-nest
- The Cardiff Giant, for one
- Hoodwink
- Like an urban legend
- UFO's, perhaps
- Manti Te'o's girlfriend, for one
- The Cardiff Giant, e.g.
- Facebook privacy announcement, e.g.
- Kurt Vonnegut's faux commencement address e-mail, e.g.
- Like many a catfish relationship