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What does rugged mean?
Got rinsed by the project's own team. They drained the liquidity pool, deleted the Discord, nuked the site, and vanished — your bag is now worth zero and there's no one to sue. The default exit scam of crypto.
"Woke up to the chart at -99% and the dev's Twitter deleted — fully rugged."
Origin
Short for 'rug pulled' / 'rug pull' — from the older English idiom 'pull the rug out from under someone.' Crypto-native usage took off in the 2020–21 DeFi summer wave, when anonymous teams routinely launched tokens, farmed liquidity, then drained the pool overnight.
Frequently asked questions
What does rugged mean in crypto?
It means having lost money to a rug pull, where a project's team abandons it and drains the funds; it's also used loosely for being abandoned or betrayed by a project.
What is a rug pull?
A rug pull is a scam where developers hype a token or NFT, take investors' money, then pull liquidity or vanish, leaving holders with worthless assets.
How can you avoid getting rugged?
Reducing the risk involves checking whether the team is doxxed, whether liquidity is locked and whether the contract has been audited before investing.
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