Rip off and Short

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Rip off verb - To rob by the use of trickery or threats.

Usage example: an investigation revealed that a whole slew of suppliers had been ripping off the defense department

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Short and rip off are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Short" instead a verb "Rip off".

Short verb - To rob by the use of trickery or threats.

Usage example: charged that the used-car dealer had been shorting customers for years

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Rip off and short are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Rip off" instead a verb "Short".

In the Itchy and Scratchy short "Screams from a Mall," Itchy nails Scratchy's feet to an escalator, causing his fur to rip off, then puts the fur up for sale.

Source: Animal Wrongs Group
In addition to all of this, they can raise their victims (of which there will be many) as a kind of short-lived zombie, which will, as its first act in unlife, proceed to rip off its own face out of self-hatred.

Source: Our Vampires Are Different / Literature

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