rake off
verb1
To remove (something from something) in a sweeping motion.
- He used his arm to rake the books off the shelf.
2
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: rake off.
- rake leaves off the road.
rake-off
nounalso spelled rake-off1
A percentage of an amount of money taken by a third-party as a bribe, as part of an unlawful enterprise, or as a commission from the pot of a casino game.
- The local party machines took control of the cajas, the local savings banks. They encouraged them to lend to developers, in many cases taking a rake-off for party coffers.2012 November 24, “Spain and Catalonia: The trials of keeping a country together”, in The Economist: