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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
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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
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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
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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
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Robinhood

fuck robinhood
by macknagginggirl January 29, 2021
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going robinhood

means robbing some rich-ass punk and using it for the poor
"yo were going robinhood and were going to try to take some rich peoples money"

"dude lets do it and send it back to poor mama"
by YAKYAKYAKYAK March 10, 2014
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robinhood kid

The kids who took their stimulus checks & invested it instead of just spending it. They might not actually use the Robinhood investing app, but hey— they might!
These Robinhood kids are putting a bunch of money back into the stock market!
by Robinhoodkid December 7, 2020
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