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Rugged

Getting rugged means losing your money because a project turned out to be a scam.

Definition

Getting rugged means losing your money because a project turned out to be a scam. The team pulled the rug from under investors by draining liquidity, abandoning the project, or executing a scam. 'I got rugged on that new DeFi protocol' is an unfortunate but common experience.

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