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To rip off, scam, or swindle someone in a personal financial or otherwise transaction. An action violating fiduciary responsibility.

Typically involving retirement or investment assets. Also to perform an unsuitable action in business and personal relationships for an improper personal gain at the other parties expense.

The character featured in It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini. He checks himself into a mental hospital and stays there for a few days. Ned Vizzini wrote the book in approximately one month and used about 85% of his actual experience; he added in the love triangle, changed his age during the events, manipulated the races and personalities of the actual people there, and changed some names around.