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Synonyms for highway robbery

  • noun

Most common

padding price gouging

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

1. High pad — the act of robbing a traveler on a public road

padding, high pad dated

2. Daylight robbery — excessive or exorbitant prices

daylight robbery informal UK, price gouging

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    The act of robbing a traveler on a public road.

  2. n. 2

    Excessive or exorbitant prices.

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

Related words

Other spellings
highway-robbery

Example sentences

  • padding Tom was caught padding his expense account.

By length

7 letters
padding2

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (padding2 = 2 syllables).