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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



... triumphantly, after an interval during which the girls had watched with eager eyes and bated breath. "That was a mean one. Thought it was going to make me rip out the whole row—but I showed it! Now, please, don't anybody drop any more. I must finish that pair of ...
— The Outdoor Girls in Army Service - Doing Their Bit for the Soldier Boys • Laura Lee Hope
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— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine
... hear? No one. We will melt them, and mold them, And make them a stem For a banner gorged with blood, For a blue-mouthed torch. So the men rush like clouds, They strike their iron edges on the Bishop's chair And fling down the lanterns by the tower stair. They rip the Bishop out of his tomb And break the mitre off of his head. "See," say they, "the man is dead; He cannot shiver or sing. We'll toss for ...
— American Poetry, 1922 - A Miscellany • Edna St. Vincent Millay
... hadn't had so many loving friends to impress her with the idea that her case was desperate. I talk Dutch to such people now and then, when I get the chance, but it doesn't do much good. Sometimes I get so thundering mad I can't stand it, and then I rip out something that ...
— Red Pepper's Patients - With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in Particular • Grace S. Richmond
... I would better not: I should rip up old disgraces, let out my poor brother's weaknesses. By the 80 way, Maffeo of Forli (which, I forgot to observe, is your true name), was the interdict ever taken off you, for robbing ...
— Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning • Robert Browning


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