Usually means: Charging excessively for goods, services.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. highway robbery: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. highway robbery: Collins English Dictionary
  3. highway robbery: Vocabulary.com
  4. highway robbery: Wordnik
  5. highway robbery: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. highway robbery: Wiktionary
  7. highway robbery: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. highway robbery: Dictionary.com
  9. Highway Robbery (disambiguation), Highway Robbery, Highway robbery: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. highway robbery: Rhymezone
  11. highway robbery: FreeDictionary.org
  12. highway robbery: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. highway robbery: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. highway robbery: Merriam-Webster
  15. highway robbery: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. highway robbery: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. highway robbery: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. highway robbery: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. highway robbery: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. highway robbery: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (highway robbery)

noun:  (historical, literal) The act of robbing a traveler on a public road.
noun:  (idiomatic) Said of excessive or exorbitant prices.

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