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/hˈaɪwˌeɪ rˈɑbəri/ Listen

noun

Highway robbery n.

Robbery committed on the public roads.

An excessively high price or fee; used especially in situations where the buyer has little or no choice but to buy the item offered.

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Etymology of 'Highway robbery'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Highway robbery" Quotes from Famous Books

... punishment for crime, or from an instinctive desire to return to primitive simplicity, foreswore life in the towns "under the bell," and made their homes in the mountains or other remote places. Gathered in small bands with such arms as they could secure, they sustained themselves by highway robbery and the levying of ...

— The Reign of Greed - Complete English Version of 'El Filibusterismo' • Jose Rizal

... to find it now complete. The old folio editions have been often mutilated by over use; the many later editions in octavo are mutilated by design of their editors; and for conveying any idea of the rough truthful descriptiveness of a book compiled in the palmy days of highway robbery, ...

— The Book-Hunter - A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author • John Hill Burton

... a warrant for the man for felonious assault, attempted highway robbery, or something of the sort, and have him sent where he won't trouble you again ...

— Frank Merriwell's Chums • Burt L. Standish

... a lawn somewhat quicker than seed. The best are cut from the road-side, but it is a hateful despoiling of one of the fairest of travellers' joys. Those who commit this highway robbery should reckon themselves in honor bound to sow the bare places they leave behind. Some people cut the pieces eighteen inches square, some about a yard long and twelve inches wide. Cut thin, roll up like thin bread and butter. When they are laid down, fit close ...

— Last Words - A Final Collection of Stories • Juliana Horatia Ewing

... Beach to Long Key. And the obvious reason is that nobody seems to take the trouble to get what might be proper bait for sailfish. Mullet is an easy bait to get and commands just as high a price as anything else, which, as a matter of fact, is highway robbery. With a bait like a ballyhoo or a shiner I could get ten bites ...

— Tales of Fishes • Zane Grey

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