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highway robbery

noun

Etymology

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

  1. derived from weġrēaf — “highway robbery”

Definitions

  1. The act of robbing a traveler on a public road.

  2. Excessive or exorbitant prices.

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

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA