rip

1 a dissolute man in fashionable society [syn: rake, profligate, blood, roue]

2 an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart; "there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings" [syn: rent, snag, split, tear]

3 a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current [syn: riptide, tide rip, crosscurrent, countercurrent]

4 the act of rending or ripping or splitting something; "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip" [syn: rent, split]

1 tear or be torn violently; "The curtain ripped from top to bottom"; "pull the cooked chicken into strips" [syn: rend, rive, pull]

2 move precipitously or violently; "The tornado ripped along the coast"

3 cut (wood) along the grain

4 criticize or abuse strongly and violently; "The candidate ripped into his opponent mercilessly" [also: ripping, ripped]

see RIP

English

Pronunciation

• rĭp, /rɪp/, /rIp/

• Rhymes: -ɪp

Noun

1. A tear in paper etc.
2. A type of tide or current.
3. (slang) A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action.
4. (slang) A "hit" of marijuana.

Synonyms

• tear

Related terms

• riptide

Verb

1. To cause something, usually paper, to rapidly become two parts.
2. italbrac woodworking To cut wood along (parallel to) the grain. Contrast cross-cut.
3. slang computing To copy data from optical disks such as cd's and dvd's to a hard drive.
4. slang illicit drug consumption To take a "hit" of marijuana.

Derived terms

• let rip
• to rip it up (ripping it up)
• rip off

Synonyms

• tear

Related terms

• ripper

For the abbreviation or acronym RIP, please see RIP.

The term rip may refer to:

• Raster image processor RIP Digital printing term
• Rip Chords, Bruce Johnston and Terry Melcher, instrumental in the development of surf rock
• Rip current, strong surface flow of water returning seaward from near the shore
• Rip cut, carpentry term
• Rip Hamilton, player with the Detroit Pistons of the NBA
• Rip saw, carpentry tool
• Rip Slyme, Japanese hip-hop group
• Rip Taylor, actor
• Rip Torn, actor
• Rip van Winkle, short story
• Rip, Senegal, region and historical kingdom in southern Senegal
  • Nioro du Rip, town in Senegal
• Ripoff or rip-off, a bad deal
• Ripping, process of copying, for example, CD audio or DVD video to a computer hard-disk
• Routing Information Protocol, related to Computer networking
• The Rip, entrance to Port Phillip Bay from Bass Strait in Victoria, Australia
• The Říp Mountain (in the Czech Republic)

See also: Rip It Up (disambiguation)

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