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rip
1[ rip ]
verb (used with object)
- to cut or tear apart in a rough or vigorous manner:
to rip open a seam; to rip up a sheet.
- to cut or tear away in a rough or vigorous manner:
to rip bark from a tree.
- to saw (wood) in the direction of the grain.
- Digital Technology. to copy (audio or video files from a CD, DVD, or website) to a hard drive or mobile device, typically by extracting the raw data and changing the file format in the process: Compare burn 1( def 30 ).DAE
Can you rip this CD for me?
verb (used without object)
- to become torn apart or split open:
Cheap cloth rips easily.
- Informal. to move with violence or great speed:
The sports car ripped along in a cloud of dust and exhaust fumes.
noun
- a rent made by ripping; tear.
Synonyms: cut, laceration
- Slang. a cheat, swindle, or theft; ripoff:
The average consumer doesn't realize that the new tax is a rip.
verb phrase
- Informal. to utter angrily, as with an oath or exclamation.
- Slang.
- to steal or pilfer.
- to rob or steal from.
- to swindle, cheat, or exploit; take advantage of:
phony charity appeals that rip off a gullible public.
- Informal. to attack physically or verbally; assail.
rip
2[ rip ]
noun
- a stretch of turbulent water at sea or in a river.
rip
3[ rip ]
noun
- a dissolute or worthless person.
- a worthless or worn-out horse.
- something of little or no value.
Rip
4[ rip ]
noun
- a male given name, form of Robert.
RIP
5[ ahr-ahy-pee, rip ]
abbreviation for
- rest in peace:
- (used, especially on grave markers and memorials, to wish peace after death upon a deceased person).
- Often Facetious. (used to indicate that a person or thing has been destroyed or damaged):
RIP to my dignity after that awful spin class.
RIP
1abbreviation for
- requiescat or requiescant in pace
rip
2/ rɪp /
noun
- short for riptide
ˈrip
3/ rɪp /
verb
- to tear or be torn violently or roughly; split or be rent
- tr; foll by off or out to remove hastily, carelessly, or roughly
they ripped out all the old kitchen units
- informal.intr to move violently or precipitously; rush headlong
- informal.intrfoll byinto to pour violent abuse (on); make a verbal attack (on)
- tr to saw or split (wood) in the direction of the grain
- informal.tr computing to copy (music or software) without permission or making any payment
- let ripto act or speak without restraint
noun
- the place where something is torn; a tear or split
- short for ripsaw
rip
4/ rɪp /
noun
- something or someone of little or no value
- an old worn-out horse
- a dissolute character; reprobate
rip
/ rĭp /
- A stretch of water in a river, estuary, or tidal channel made rough by waves meeting an opposing current.
- A rip current.
R.I.P.
- The abbreviation for “rest in peace,” often found on gravestones or in obituaries. From the Latin , requiescat in pace .
Derived Forms
- ˈrippable, adjective
Other Words From
- rippa·ble adjective
- un·rippa·ble adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of rip1
Origin of rip3
Origin of rip4
Word History and Origins
Origin of rip1
Origin of rip2
Origin of rip3
Origin of rip4
Idioms and Phrases
- let rip, Slang.
- to utter a series of oaths; swear.
- to speak or write violently, rapidly, or at great length.
- to allow to proceed at full speed or without restraint.
More idioms and phrases containing rip
- let it rip
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
The last band I was in was kind of a Sonic Youth rip-off band, and I thought that that was my calling.
Instead of decorating every face on the street, Google Glass hit a contrarian rip tide.
Not that the Shakespearean riff on/rip off is limited to novels.
This is why capitalism, he concludes triumphantly, is “no rip-off.”
Though the good gut bugs are likely beneficial for some, companies are using the label to rip off consumers.
They ain't got such a rip-roarin' start of us—an' I'm the boy can foller that track from hell t' breakfast an' back again.
Then I tied up the rip in the meal sack with a string, so it wouldn't leak no more, and took it and my saw to the canoe again.
In a word, he did rip up all that could be said that was unworthy, and in the basest terms they could be spoken in.
You must read for yourselves the famous story of Rip Van Winkle and the nap he took.
Buck begun to cry and rip, and 'lowed that him and his cousin Joe (that was the other young chap) would make up for this day yet.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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