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 |
| SOAK | 2 % | 4 |
| FILCH | 2 % | 5 |
| DEFRAUD | 2 % | 7 |
| THIEVE | 2 % | 6 |
| CHEAT | 2 % | 5 |
| COP | 1 % | 3 |
| ROOK | 1 % | 4 |
| CAPER | 1 % | 5 |
| TEAR | 1 % | 4 |
| PILFER | 1 % | 6 |
| THEFT | 1 % | 5 |
| APE | 1 % | 3 |
| CON | 1 % | 3 |
| HEIST | 1 % | 5 |
| STUB | 1 % | 4 |
| HOAX | 1 % | 4 |
| TEAR LOOSE | 1 % | 10 |
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 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 FILCH
More clues leading to the result DEFRAUD
More clues leading to the result THIEVE
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 COP
- Flatfoot
- __ a plea
- Friday, e.g.
- One wielding tear gas or driving a tank, perhaps, alas (and, after burrowing, a 37-Down/43-Across from Barry Manilow)
- Beat walker
- Bobby from Britain
- Filch
- One in a cruiser
- Pig
- Whistle blower?
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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