A person who is ripped off has had something stolen, or at least has been treated very unfairly.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

These products have names like Red Bull, Monster,Ripped Force, Speed Stack and 5-Hour Energy.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

The message on the sign was that the student felt ripped off, or cheated.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

People trying to earn money also must be aware of being ripped off.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

Most are amazed that this is the same country that was ripped apart by genocide just 15 years ago.

VOA: standard.2009.04.08

Hundreds of houses were flattened and flooded by the two million cubic meters of water that ripped through the Dutch-colonial era dam.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

President Medvedev arrived in capital city of Makhachkala as two people were killed when an explosion ripped their car apart in a Dagestani village.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

The force of the explosion ripped the facades off several houses in the area.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

But they also have a right not to get ripped off by the sudden rate hikes, unfair penalties and hidden fees that have become all too common in our credit card industry,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.09

but I did get kind of fit for the film because every cheese farmer is ripped and buff and I wanted to be true to character because I'm 'method' ."

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

"When the skipper on the Ady Gil saw the Shonan Maru moving in to strike him, he put his engines in reverse to get out of the way, which probably saved some of his crew but it ripped the front end of the vessel off and caused catastrophic damage to the Ady Gil,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.06