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JumpCrisscross on Sept 22, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Uber London loses licence to operate

> Your use very fringe at best and is very inappropriate anywhere else

New Yorker here. Perfectly fine usage there. “The cab driver robbed me” is our local variant.

astura on Sept 22, 2017 [–]

"Robbed" is not the same as "mugged." You are correct that "robbed" does have a colloquial definition.

>informal overcharge (someone) for something.

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