ripped

[ript]

adjective

Slang.

1. drunk; intoxicated.

2. under the influence of an illicit drug.

3. having well-defined muscles; very muscular.

ripped

/ rɪpt /

adjective

1. torn

   ripped jeans

2. informal,  denoting or having highly developed muscles, esp abdominal muscles

   a ripped torso

Word History and Origins

Origin of ripped¹

First recorded in 1815–25; rip ¹ + -ed ²

Example Sentences

At least three people have been killed and hundreds of thousands have been forced to flee their homes as a typhoon ripped through the central Philippines, the country's disaster agency said.

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It ripped a terrifying path through the Caribbean, leaving at least 31 dead in Haiti, including 10 children who drowned in heavy flooding, and ravaged parts of Cuba and the Dominican Republic.

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Sennott and her fellow executive producer Emma Barrie bought it to replace an identical piece their fellow executive producer Max Silvestri lost in the wildfires that ripped across the region earlier this year.

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“FICO, and any other monopoly who has ripped off Americans for decades, should not be using improper efforts to threaten regulators,” he wrote on X.

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Their rifles were ripped away, bent into hooks, and thrown aside.

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Related Words

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• burly 
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• wiry