Rug pull

When life suddenly pulls the rug metaphorically from your feet and your life suddenly changes with some sort of major loss that is unexpected or unfathomable

I tried to unlock my front door but my ex-wife rug pulled me and changed the locks.

Rug pull by tallpaul1here July 1, 2021

Rug Pull

When you buy a BSC shitcoin thinking you'll become the next DFV but then the Devs dump all there coins on you and take that sweet BNB pot leaving you with a worthless shitcoin. (Some people also call this rug Roulette as long as you can get out before the Devs do)

*guy shilling coin on Reddit

"fuck yeah, I'll be rich with this 1000x coin"
*Devs dump all there coins on you and take that sweet BNB

Leaving you with a coin worth jack shit (i.e rug pull)

Rug Pull by SEXMAN April 20, 2021

Rug Pull

When after 4 days of sitting on the sidelines you decide to join the stock market and buy a 0 DTE SPY 420 Call only to watch SPY plummet 7% initiating a circuit breaker 3 seconds after you click the buy button.

Drew: Damn I was hoping to turn my stimulus check into a brand new Tesla but JPOW decided to rug pull on me right as I got in

Mike: Well at least you can get a 4 piece chicken tender at Wendy's

Rug Pull by JPOW2024 November 11, 2020

Rug Pull

When someone pulls a rug from one place to another place

"Aladdin's rug pull game was strong."

Rug Pull by automation January 29, 2022

Rug Pull

When the POTUS announces a bitcoin strategic reserve in nashville but ends up buying xrp, sol and ada.

The Bitcoin maxis got rug pulled by the potus

Rug Pull by stevysg March 2, 2025

Rug pull

A scam where developers suddenly abandon a project and drain liquidity, causing the token’s price to crash to near zero.

Everyone thought the memecoin was legit until it rug pulled overnight and wiped out holders.

Rug pull by $URBANDIC January 5, 2026

Investor's Rug Pull 

Claiming you are down to buy, hodl, and help promote a community coin cryptocurrency project, but take all your money and run the moment you get a x10. Saying you'll hold, then leaving the moment any profit happens.

The Community Coin's development team proved the project isn't a rug pull, and the value skyrocketed until some big hodlers treated it like a pump and dump scheme and did the Investor's Rug Pull. They left the developers and the community in the ditch and tanked the coin.

Investor's Rug Pull by Gerry Mandered Data July 10, 2021