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Highway robbery

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of robbing a traveler on a public road. countable, historical, uncountable
  2. 2
    robbery of travellers on or near a public road wordnet
  3. 3
    Excessive or exorbitant prices. idiomatic, uncountable, usually

    "They think they can charge $400 for a shirt? That's highway robbery."

  4. 4
    an exorbitant price wordnet

Etymology

Compare Old English weġrēaf (“highway robbery”, literally “road-theft”).

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