get robbed

phrase

: to be overcharged : to pay too much

You paid $100 for that old bike? You got robbed.

Examples of get robbed in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The user noted that one of the biggest differences is that Americans who get robbed at home are usually robbed at gunpoint. — Thomas Westerholm, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2026

What if we get robbed on the way? — Ashley Carnahan, FOXNews.com, 9 Feb. 2026

Boyd’s outing occurred a night after the Cubs saw Cody Bellinger homer three times off three different pitchers and Kyle Tucker get robbed of a homer by Aaron Judge, who did it three other times before getting two of the Yankees’ four hits off Boy. — Larry Fleisher, Forbes.com, 13 July 2025

People who are trapped in a cash economy, the poor in particular, are the people who get robbed, who have no insurance for loss, who get shaken down. — David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 26 June 2022

The Beetlejuice 2 set isn’t the first one to get robbed in recent history. — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019

Rhymes for get robbed

• bobbed
• daubed
• knobbed
• lobbed
• mobbed
• sobbed
• throbbed