rip
Plural: rips
Noun
- a dissolute man in fashionable society
- an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
- "there was a rip in his pants"
- a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current
- the act of rending or ripping or splitting something
- "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip"
- A tear (in paper, etc.).
- A type of strong, rough tide or current.
- A rip current: a strong outflow of surface water, away from the shore, that returns water from incoming waves.
- A type of strong, rough tide or current.
- A tract of broken water (in a river or stream), particularly one which is not as rough as rapids.
- A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action.
- A hit (dose) of marijuana.
- A black mark given for substandard schoolwork.
- Something unfairly expensive, a rip-off.
- Data or audio copied from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
- A fart.
- Something ripped off or stolen; a work resulting from plagiarism.
- A kind of glissando leading up to the main note to be played.
- Ellipsis of ripsaw (“saw for cutting wood along its grain”).
- A joyride.
- A worthless horse; a nag.
- An immoral man; a rake, a scoundrel.
- A handful of unthreshed grain.
Verb
Verb Forms: ripped, ripping, rips
- To tear or cut something apart roughly or forcefully.
- tear or be torn violently
- "The curtain ripped from top to bottom"
- "pull the cooked chicken into strips"
- move precipitously or violently
- "The tornado ripped along the coast"
- cut (wood) along the grain
- criticize or abuse strongly and violently
- "The candidate ripped into his opponent mercilessly"
- To divide or separate the parts of (especially something flimsy, such as paper or fabric), by cutting or tearing; to tear off or out by violence.
- To tear apart; to rapidly become two parts.
- To remove violently or wrongly.
- To get by, or as if by, cutting or tearing.
- To move quickly and destructively.
- To cut wood along (parallel to) the grain.
- To copy data from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc., to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
- To take a hit, dose or shot of a drug (such as marijuana) or alcohol.
- To fart audibly.
- To mock or criticize (someone or something). (often used with on and into)
- To steal; to rip off.
- To move or act fast; to rush headlong.
- To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; usually with up.
- To surf extremely well.
- To be very good; rock
Intj
- Alternative letter-case form of RIP.
Examples
- A child untimely ripped from its parents' arms.
- He spent the day ripping shots at the bar and ripping blunts at home.
- He wanted to "RIP" his opponent’s strategy to shreds with a powerful play.
- lmfao rip your dms
- My shirt ripped when it was caught on a bramble.
- Some of these CD rips don't sound very good: what bitrate did you use?
- to rip a garment; to rip up a floor
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English rippen, from earlier ryppen (“to pluck”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rupjaną, *ruppōną (compare West Frisian rippe, ripje, roppe, ropje (“to rip”), Dutch dialectal rippen, Low German ruppen, German Low German röpen, German rupfen), intensive of *raupijaną (compare Old English rīpan, rīepan (“to plunder”), West Frisian rippe (“to rip, tear”), German raufen (“to rip”)), causative of Proto-Indo-European *roub- ~ *reub- (compare Albanian rrabe ‘maquis’, possibly Latin rubus (“bramble”)), variant of *Hrewp- (“to break”). More at reave, rob.
Synonyms
blood, countercurrent, crosscurrent, profligate, pull, rake, rakehell, rend, rent, riptide, rive, roue, snag, split, tear, tide rip
Scrabble Score: 5
rip: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordrip: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
rip: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary