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🫧 To put in liquid 💧 To make wet 🍻 To get drunk 🛁 A liquid bath 💸 To overcharge 🔥 To heat metal
to soak

to soak

8 8.7
Charge someone much more than a fair price
  • verb
  • /soʊk/
  • Informal
translation icon : cobrar de más
  • But these journals are are really soaking the consumer, you know, right.
  • soak the rich
  • soak the middle class
  • soak the poor

You're not using it as an excuse to like, you know, soak people for money or have orgies or whatever it's going to be.

Examples

  • How can we soak 'em when they have the bulls on the payroll?

    Fiction book (1992)

  • You buy your goddamn wiring and your fixtures, and you mark it up 20, 50% and you soak me for it.

    A Home of Our Own (1993)

  • When the rich leave, who will the legislature have left to soak?

    Blog text (28)

  • You're not using it as an excuse to like, you know, soak people for money or have orgies or whatever it's going to be.

    Gregory B. Sadler - That Philosophy Guy

  • To be paid, no doubt, by soaking 'rich pricks' like me.

    Blog text (10)

  • The lower you get on the totem pole, the more you get soaked by the system.

  • Foreign workers and overseas plants have soaked up billions of American bailout tax dollars.

    Blog text (33)

  • Still, they get bailed out to the tune of billions and keep right on soaking us.

    Blog text (23)

  • You're soaking her for $9,000.

    Roxanne (1987)

  • Many believe the new tax plan would soak the wealthy to support social programs.

Synonyms

to rob
vsto soak
  • Informal
73 6.4

To charge someone a much higher price than usual

is used for unfair or dishonest excessive charging
to overcharge
vsto soak
18 3.4

To ask someone for more money than a fair price

focuses on unfair or dishonest excess in price
to fleece
vsto soak
  • Informal
14 8.5

Charge someone too much money

implies deliberate cheating rather than mere higher costs
to pluck
vsto soak
  • Archaic
14 9.9

To charge someone too much money

carries the same idea but focuses on swindling by price
to hook
vsto soak
  • Informal
7 8.1

To charge someone too much money for something

is the general sense of unfair often informal excessive charging
to gouge the customer
vsto soak
1 8.2

Charge customers much more than is fair

highlights making someone pay an unreasonable unfair price
to gouge on
vsto soak
9.1

Charge someone an unfairly high price

is about overcharging with unfair or dishonest intent
to surcharge
vsto soak
6.0

Add an extra fee to a price, often for a special service

is about unfair overcharging rather than neutral extra fees

Antonyms

to discount
36 1.7

To sell something at a lower price than usual

Idioms

to soak your head
  • Offensive
9.9

A rude phrase that tells someone to stop complaining and leave for a while

Phrasal Verbs

to soak up
  • Informal
16 3.9

To take in and enjoy the atmosphere or information

to soak up
13 2.6

To take in liquid completely like a sponge or cloth

to soak through
6 3.1

To become completely wet all the way through

to soak overnight
1 2.8

Put something in water and leave it all night to make it soft

to soak up the sun
  • Informal
1 3.5

To sit or lie outside to enjoy the warm sun

to soak in the tub
1 2.3

To relax for a while in warm water in a bathtub

to soak up knowledge
  • Informal
1 4.0

To take in new information quickly and easily

How Overcharged

to soak
  • Informal
8 8.7
to rip off
  • Informal
76 6.5
to overcharge
18 3.4
to charge
808 2.0

Surface Forms

soak infinitive
soaked past
soaked past participle
soaking present participle
soaks third person singular

Etymology

Soak can mean 'to overcharge' because of a simple image: to 'soak' someone for money is like squeezing money out of them as if they were a wet cloth, so the word now often means making someone pay too much.