Price Gouging

Price gouging is a term for a seller pricing much higher than is considered reasonable or fair. In precise, legal usage, it is the name of a felony that applies in some of the United States only during civil emergencies. In less precise usage, it can refer either to prices obtained by practices inconsistent with a competitive free market, or to windfall profits.

Take a $16 ticket, add $5.90 convenience charge, then add $2.20 for ordering online, and that's a 52% markup for a ticket to buy from ticketmaster.com

FIFTY PERCENT MARKUP, now THAT IS PRICE GOUGING!!!

Price Gouging by ihatescams October 6, 2009

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Price Gouging

The act of raising the prices due to increased demand and/or low inventory of a product, service, etc.

Price gouging-The stores in the CA gold rush would price gouge because they were the only in town and the miners needed the supplies.

Price Gouging by Happy facer boi March 4, 2022

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Price Gouging • price gauging • Price • Price chopper • price is right • price check • price tag • "Price is Right" Rule • price drop tv • Price Hipster

price gauging

Taking advantage of people by over-charging for something.

When there is a scarce item at the store like a nintendo wii and you buy the system for $250 and you do price gauging and sell it for $600

price gauging by tiowhatever December 9, 2008

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🤡🫵🏻

How to say "you're an idiot/clown" using only emojis.

Person 1: Insert completely incorrect and/or idiotic statement here
Person 2: 🤡🫵🏻

🤡🫵🏻 by Ubeenbamboozledson May 31, 2026

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fogey

Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!

You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)

fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005

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Jarlic

Minced garlic in a jar

Add a tablespoon of jarlic to two teaspoons of butter and spread it in bread to make garlic bread

Jarlic by YSAC fanboy June 6, 2020

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Pitpig

An armpit enthusiast — typically of the scent, appearance, and touch of hairy underarms.

That dude’s such a pitpig, I have to wear deodorant to keep him at bay.

Pitpig by wimbledon May 28, 2026

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