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Old Nov 15, 2016 | 10:30 am
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Originally Posted by miamiflyer8
It's been on my mind that Azul, in Brazil is a rip off airline off jetBlue.
Originally Posted by KLouis
You do know the meaning of rip off, don't you?
I think OP may have meant "knock"off.

But in reviewing usage, both "ripoff" and "knockoff" can be used to mean "copy" per dictionary.com, with "knockoff" also being used to mean an "unlicensed copy". So maybe knockoff is more appropriate here depending on what OP was implying. "Ripoff" is generally used in a more derogatory vein, but "knockoff" can also be used to denote a copy which is inferior to the original.

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