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In Russian, there's this slang word which means "to steal something from someone by force" like a business or a cell-phone. "Отжать бизнес" or "Отжать мобилу". The verb is "wring out" - i. e. "to wring out a business" or "to wring out a cell-phone" respectively.
What's the English word for that? I mean a well-known slang word understood by both the Americans and the British.
Legally, taking it by immediate threat of force is robbery.
The taking of money or goods in the possession of another, from his or her person or immediate presence, by force or intimidation.
Legally, the more distant threat is extortion.
The obtaining of property from another induced by wrongful use of actual or threatened force, violence, or fear, or under color of official right.
but in an informal context, one might say the business owner was robbed.
However, if you wanted one word to cover both situations, we would probably say both the phone and the business were stolen. Which is not very slangy
The word most often used in this context is mugged (from the verb to mug).
It implies stealing from an individual using threat, force or violence.
Robbed is an alternative, again indicating theft with force or menaces (from the verb to rob.
But while mugged is used only with regard to people, robbed can also be used for institutions such as banks.
Another possible phrase is "help oneself to (something)". This is not slang (it is usually used of food: "He helped himself to more potatoes"), but it sounds ironic and drily humourous when the thing taken is a business or other large property: "The government put the owner on trial and helped itself to his oil company/house/country estate..."
