highway robbery

1. 1.

   an exorbitant price

   “what they are asking for gas these days is highway robbery”

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2. 2.

   robbery of travellers on or near a public road

   Broaderrobbery

Questions about highway robbery

What does highway robbery mean?

highway robbery means "an exorbitant price". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is highway robbery a common word?

highway robbery is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.