Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-23.229.103.88-20200624212858/@comment-6697950-20200624231412

ボッタクリ, a word that just means "ripoff". Comes from the word 暴利 (excessive profit) during the rice riots of 1918 when the price of rice skyrocketed and people started charging exorbitant prices for rice during a period of low supply and got rich off of it.