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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



... got so much as a tenpenny-nail. It's onreasonable; but I suppose it aren't no use to talk. Come on, my lads, and let's see. Axes here. Get one in between them two floor-boards and wedge one of them out—that's the style!" And as he spoke, rip, rip, crack! the board was wrenched out of its place, leaving a long opening and easy access to the boards on either side. "Steady there, mates; don't lose a nail. They are very poor ones, and only rusty ...
— Fitz the Filibuster • George Manville Fenn
... of Trelawny's little Jersey bull? Nothing. It never hurt me yet. But I see the devil in his eyes and in the lift of his feet and the toss of his horns and the switch of his tail, and I know right well he'd rip me to pieces if I'd only give him the chance. That's the way I know Roland Tresham is a bad one. I see the devil in the glinting of his eyes and the mock of his smile, and I wouldn't have been more sick frightened to-night if I'd seen ...
— A Singer from the Sea • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
... afraid, for no harm can happen I will sew up the skin, leaving room enough for the admission of air. By and by a roc will descend, and seizing it in her talons carry thee easily through the air. When she shall have alighted on the table-land of the mountain, rip open the stitches of the skin with thy dagger, and the roc on seeing thee will be instantly scared, and fly far away. Then arise, gather as much as possible of a black dust which thou wilt find thickly strewed on the ground; ...
— The Arabian Nights Entertainments Complete • Anonymous
... before him, saying, "I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel; their strongholds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children and rip up their ...
— Myths of Babylonia and Assyria • Donald A. Mackenzie
... their persons had been again most carefully searched, that no piece of metal might remain about them, lest they might contrive to destroy themselves. Suicide is, in Japan, the fashionable mode of terminating a life which cannot be prolonged but in circumstances of dishonour: to rip up one's own bowels in such a case, wipes away every stain on the character. The guards of the Russian captives not only used every precaution against this, but carefully watched over their health and comfort, ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 448 - Volume 18, New Series, July 31, 1852 • Various


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