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Rip   /rɪp/   Listen
verb
Rip  v. t.  (past & past part. ripped; pres. part. ripping)  
1.
To divide or separate the parts of, by cutting or tearing; to tear or cut open or off; to tear off or out by violence; as, to rip a garment by cutting the stitches; to rip off the skin of a beast; to rip up a floor; commonly used with up, open, off.
2.
To get by, or as by, cutting or tearing. "He 'll rip the fatal secret from her heart."
3.
To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; usually with up. "They ripped up all that had been done from the beginning of the rebellion." "For brethern to debate and rip up their falling out in the ear of a common enemy... is neither wise nor comely."
4.
To saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber.
Ripping chisel (Carp.), a crooked chisel for cleaning out mortises.
Ripping iron. (Shipbuilding) Same as Ravehook.
Ripping saw. (Carp.) See Ripsaw.
To rip out, to rap out, to utter hastily and violently; as, to rip out an oath. (Colloq.) See To rap out, under Rap, v. t.


noun
Rip  n.  A wicker fish basket.


Rip  n.  
1.
A rent made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn; laceration.
2.
A term applied to a mean, worthless thing or person, as to a scamp, a debauchee, or a prostitute, or a worn-out horse. (Slang.)
3.
A body of water made rough by the meeting of opposing tides or currents.





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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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