rips

Noun

• a dissolute man in fashionable society
• an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
• 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
• plural of rip

Verb

• tear or be torn violently
  • "pull the cooked chicken into strips"
• move precipitously or violently
• cut (wood) along the grain
• criticize or abuse strongly and violently
• third-person singular simple present indicative of rip

Synonyms

blood, countercurrent, crosscurrent, profligate, pull, rake, rakehell, rend, rent, rip, riptide, rive, roue, snag, split, tear, tide rip