Robinhood Publishers

Publishing houses that rob their star authors to pay bonuses to their oft-underpaid and overworked editors and their bosses, using all kinds of creative strategies to avoid getting caught, while family-owned publishers would notoriously overpay themselves and their loved ones or relatives first, but underpay their employees.

Even in low-corruption Singapore, it’s an open secret that Robinhood publishers continue to thrive, because most authors who’ve a sixth sense of being shortchanged couldn’t afford the legal means to suing them for their decades-long shady business practices.

by Fasters October 21, 2022

Pull a Robinhood

For a company or person to act in a manner that so defies everything their brand ever stood for that it actually makes the brand ironic.

Did you hear how wholesome ol’ Mr. Bill Cosby drugged and raped all those women? Way to totally pull a Robinhood.

by SILV3R SMOKE February 1, 2021

Tennessee Robinhood

When you gettin the good succ and you pull it out of her mouth and just before you nut you screech, “MY AIM IS TRUE!” And proceed to nut in her left eye.

I’m about to shoot you with that Tennessee Robinhood

by DerpyPot8to February 24, 2018

reverse robinhooding

Stealing from the poor and giving it to the wealthy.

Trump's Tax Bill proposes to tax people who earn less than $75,000 a year at a higher rate and decrease the tax percentage on businesses and the highest income bracket. All while dismantling Obamacare which the working poor need especially for their children's healthcare. Republicans are sure good at Reverse RobinHooding these past decades.

by Funcrazy November 20, 2017

Robinhood Syndrome

A situation where systemic injustice is addressed (taking from the rich or powerful, as in the Robin Hood story), but it comes at a human cost that still evokes sympathy.

Luigi Mangione shot the United Healthcare CEO - they're all a bunch of crooks that have hurt so many people, they had it coming - this is justice served, but at the same time I can't help but feel bad for him and his family; I think I have "Robinhood Syndrome"

by cozjfs December 12, 2024

Robinhood

A easy commission free investing app for stocks and cryptocurrencies.
Robinhood Markets, Inc, Robinhood Financial, LLC, Robinhood Crypto, LLC

I'm going to buy 15 shares of Amazon.com on my Robinhood.

by GlitchedPixels June 10, 2018

Robinhooding

Robinhooding, or to Robinhood: Verb; To steal, cheat, rip-off.

“When Algo was pumping, Coinbase was robinhooding the interface.”

by Coin collector September 17, 2021