rake off

1. 1.

   take money from an illegal transaction

   Broadergain

   crime

Questions about rake off

What does rake off mean?

rake off means "take money from an illegal transaction".

Is rake off a common word?

rake off is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.