get scabbed

get scabbed

To get cheated or duped; to be ripped off or made the victim of fraud. The car started having issues just a couple days after I bought it, so I started to worry that I might have gotten scabbed by the guy who sold it to me. My cousin got scabbed in a drug deal gone bad, and now he owes the mob nearly $200,000.
See also: get, scab
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • scab
  • scabbed
  • get started on
  • get started on (something)
  • start up with
  • start up with (someone or something)
  • not have all (one's) marbles
  • not have all marbles
  • peel off from (someone or something)
  • give somebody an inch