highway robbery

• POS: Noun Phrase
• HYPHEN: high=way rob=ber=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

highway robbery, n. 

•  Robbery committed on the public roads.  [PJC]
•  An excessively high price or fee; -- used especially in situations where the buyer has little or no choice but to buy the item offered.  [PJC]

THESAURUS

highway robbery

armed robbery, asportation, assault and robbery, banditry, bank robbery, cattle lifting, cattle stealing, exploitation, extortion, heist, hijacking, holdup, loan-sharking, mugging, overassessment, overcharge, pocket picking, purse snatching, robbery, robbing, shylocking, stickup, stickup job, surcharge, usury

ROGET THESAURUS

highway robbery

Stealing

N stealing, theft, thievery, latrociny, direption, abstraction, appropriation, plagiary, plagiarism, autoplagiarism, latrocinium, spoliation, plunder, pillage, sack, sackage, rapine, brigandage, foray, razzia, rape, depredation, raid, blackmail, piracy, privateering, buccaneering, license to plunder, letters of marque, letters of mark and reprisal, filibustering, filibusterism, burglary, housebreaking, badger game, robbery, highway robbery, hold-up, mugging, peculation, embezzlement, fraud, larceny, petty larceny, grand larceny, shoplifting, thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia, den of Cacus, den of thieves, blackmail, extortion, shakedown, Black Hand, thief, thieving, thievish, light-fingered, furacious, furtive, piratical, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, raptorial, stolen, sic vos non vobis.