taking the cleaner (verb) defraud: cheat, bilk
Sinonime: bamboozle,
beguile,
burn, chouse,
circumvent, clip,
con, cozen,
deceive,
delude,
do, do number on, do out of,
dupe, embezzle, fleece, flimflam,
foil,
hoax, jive, milk, outwit, pilfer, pull fast one, rip off, rob,
shaft*, shuck,
stick*, sucker into,
swindle,
take in*, take to the cleaner's,
take*,
trick, victimize
Antonime: contribute,
help, repay,
support