| 单词 | rip job |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrip job rip job n. U.S. slang (a) a robbery in which a safe is pried open (now rare); (b) chiefly Sport a harsh critique (cf. sense 5d); (c) a fraud or swindle; = rip-off n. 1. ΚΠ 1911 N.Y. Tribune 29 Mar. 14/3 After a hole was made, the yeggmen pried open the safe and completed a ‘rip’ job. 1973 L. Shecter & W. Phillips On Pad 179 In the rip job you drill a hole in the corner of the safe. Then you peel the front of the door off with a big sectional jimmy or crowbar. 1975 Washington Post 6 Apr. d2/3 [He] asked me, ‘How do you explain Jimmy's press?’.. I thought he meant all the rip jobs. 1975 N.Y. Amsterdam News 23 Apr. d15/2 Tony raised one of the few black voices about the rip job that the Brooks Brothers racists among ETV execs were running down. 2002 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 1 Sept. b13 Another rip job: California hunters pay among the highest prices in America for resident hunting licenses. 2008 Detroit News (Electronic ed.) 10 Jan. [He] went on another of his typical contrarian rants. When the media and fans are complimenting his team, that's when he does his best rip jobs. < as lemmas |
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