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Rip

verb
(past & past part. ripped; pres. part. ripping)
1.
Tear or be torn violently.  Synonyms: pull, rend, rive.  "Pull the cooked chicken into strips"
2.
Move precipitously or violently.
3.
Cut (wood) along the grain.
4.
Criticize or abuse strongly and violently.
noun
1.
A dissolute man in fashionable society.  Synonyms: blood, profligate, rake, rakehell, roue.
2.
An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart.  Synonyms: rent, snag, split, tear.  "She had snags in her stockings"
3.
A stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current.  Synonyms: countercurrent, crosscurrent, riptide, tide rip.
4.
The act of rending or ripping or splitting something.  Synonyms: rent, split.



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"Rip" Quotes from Famous Books



... her rip!" shouted the skipper. "Go it, my hearties, an' flood it out. I've hed nary a fire aboard my ship afore; an' I don't want to be burnt out now, I reckon, with all them dry goods an' notions below, by thunder! Put your back into ...
— The Island Treasure • John Conroy Hutcheson
... a sailor has something valuable secreted in his hammock, they will rip it open from underneath while he sleeps, and reduce the conjecture to ...
— White Jacket - or, the World on a Man-of-War • Herman Melville
... naked grandeur where there's nothing else to gaze on, Set pieces and drop-curtain scenes galore, Big mountains heaved to heaven, which the blinding sunsets blazon, Black canyons where the rapids rip and roar? Have you swept the visioned valley with the green stream streaking through it, Searched the Vastness for a something you have lost? Have you strung your soul to silence? Then for God's sake go and do it; Hear the challenge, learn the ...
— The Spell of the Yukon • Robert Service
... August. "Let him rip now, Navvy. All over but the work, Jack. I feared Silvermane would spear himself on some of those dead cedar spikes in the corral. ...
— The Heritage of the Desert • Zane Grey
... ballooning in the United States, I find only one account: an ascent in Connecticut, July 29, 1885. Upon leaving this balloon, the aeronauts had pulled the "rip cord," "turning it inside out." (New York Times, ...
— The Book of the Damned • Charles Fort


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