Definition of "rip"

rip¹

/ɹɪp/

noun
plural rips
1. A tear (in paper, etc.).
2. A type of strong, rough tide or current.
  1. (Australia, New Zealand) A rip current: a strong outflow of surface water, away from the shore, that returns water from incoming waves.
    Quotations
    Rhythmic beaches consist of a rhythmic longshore bar that narrows and deepens when the rip crosses the breaker, and in between broadens, shoals and approaches the shore. It does not, however, reach the shore, with a continuous rip feeder channel feeding the rips to either side of the bar.
    2000, Andrew Short, Beaches of the Queensland Coast: Cooktown to Coolangatta, page 38
    Undertows (or ‘rips’) are the main problem. If you find yourself being carried out by a rip, the important thing to do is just keep afloat; don′t panic or try to swim against the rip, which will exhaust you. In most cases the current stops within a couple of hundred metres of the shore and you can then swim parallel to the shore for a short way to get out of the rip and make your way back to land.
    2005, Paul Smitz, Australia & New Zealand on a Shoestring, Lonely Planet, page 466
    Given that a large number of all rescues conducted by Surf Life Saving Australia (SLSA) occur in rips (a rip being a relatively narrow, seaward moving stream of water), this is critical surf-safety information (Surf Life Saving Australia, 2005).
    2010, Jeff Wilks, Donna Prendergast, Chapter 9: Beach Safety and Millennium Youth: Travellers and Sentinels, Pierre Benckendorff, Gianna Moscardo, Donna Pendergast, Tourism and Generation Y, page 100
3. (slang) A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action.
4. (slang) A hit (dose) of marijuana.
5. (UK, Eton College) A black mark given for substandard schoolwork.
6. (slang) Something unfairly expensive, a rip-off.
7. (computing, slang) Data or audio copied from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
8. (slang) A fart.
9. (demoscene, slang) Something ripped off or stolen; a work resulting from plagiarism.
  Quotations
  Well that's because groups are now releaseing[sic] music in their packs as well as vgas and rips. It[sic] you check out some local area code groups I'm sure you'll find high quality ansi if the group is good enough.
  1995, Mark Treiber, “Ansi Artist Wanted!”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet)
  Scans and rips sucks, ofcourse[sic]. But a graphician, redrawing a picture does make him less good. A pixeled image should be judged by the skills and originality in the picture, not by the motive.
  2000, Jerker Olofsson, “What to do about rippers....?”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet)
10. (music, informal) A kind of glissando leading up to the main note to be played.
11. Ellipsis of ripsaw (“saw for cutting wood along its grain”)..
12. (Canada, slang) A joyride.
  Quotations
  Camp at Kakwa Wildland Park staging area to hit the trails at first light or take a short drive from the city and go for a rip at the Big Mountain area.
  2015 September 29, Mason Buettner, “Grande Prairie Has It All When It Comes to Snowmobiling”, in SnoRidersWest.com‎, Cranbrook, British Columbia: KPI Media, retrieved 29 January 2022
  Halton Regional Police say the exotic sports car was clocked at 97 km/h in a posted 60 km/h zone in Oakville.Police say the driver rented the Ferrari and then allegedly decided to "go for a rip" in town before being pulled over by police near the rental car company.
  2020 July 17, Louie Rosella, “‘Go for a Rip’: Ferrari Driver Pulled Over After Hitting Nearly 100 km/h in Oakville Neighbourhood”, in InsideHalton.com‎, Metroland Media Group, retrieved 29 January 2022
verb
third-person singular simple present rips, present participle ripping, simple past and past participle ripped
1. (transitive) 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.
  Quotations
  For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.
  1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients
  A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.
  1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess‎
  On the other hand, HMS Colossus takes multiple hits from several battleships at once, having drifted closer to the German fleet than the rest of her squadron. She explodes as multiple magazine detonations rip the ship apart, and is lost with all hands.
  2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 21:33 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918‎, archived from the original on 4 August 2022
2. (intransitive) To tear apart; to rapidly become two parts.
3. (transitive) To get by, or as if by, cutting or tearing.
  Quotations
  He'll rip the fatal secret from her heart.
  1726, George Granville, Cleora
4. (intransitive, figurative) To move quickly and destructively.
  Quotations
  “Wall,” said the landlord, fetching a long breath, “that’s a purty long sarmon for a chap that rips a little now and then..."
  1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 3
  On 18 November 1987 a horrific flash fire ripped through the escalators and ticket hall of King's Cross tube station, killing thirty people.
  2007, Roger Baker, Emotional Processing, page 136
5. (woodworking) To cut wood along (parallel to) the grain.
6. (transitive, slang, computing) To copy data from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc., to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
7. (slang, narcotics) To take a "hit" of marijuana.
8. (slang) To fart audibly.
9. (transitive, sometimes US, slang) To mock or criticize (someone or something). (often used with on and into)
10. (transitive, slang, chiefly demoscene) To steal; to rip off.
  Quotations
  opensource is a double-edged sword. while you have a chance of people using and improving on the code, you will also have the chance of lamers ripping it.
  2001, rex deathstar, “Opensource on demoscene”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet)
  I don't really care if someone rips my 3d engine, rips effects code, or anything - simply because my 3d engine and effects will be far more advanced when someone manages to use my code.
  2001, Maciej Mróz, “thoughts on code-sharing”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet)
  […] an old demo by some bods called "kellogs and donovan" which had ripped graphics from the game "Barbarian" […]
  2002, Ray Norrish, “Barbarian demo circa 1988?”, in alt.emulators.amiga (Usenet)
11. To move or act fast; to rush headlong.
12. (archaic) To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; usually with up.
  Quotations
  They ripped up all that had been done from the beginning of the rebellion.
  1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707
  For brethren to debate and rip up their falling out in the ear of a common enemy […] is neither wise nor comely.
  1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […]
13. (intransitive, surfing, slang) To surf extremely well.

rip²

/ɹɪp/

noun
plural rips
1. A wicker basket for fish.

rip³

/ɹɪp/

noun
plural rips
1. (colloquial, regional, dated) A worthless horse; a nag.
2. (colloquial, regional, dated) An immoral man; a rake, a scoundrel.
  Quotations
  Miss Compton, in 'Other People's Worries,' asks rhetorically whether a young rip was not in the Blank divorce case.
  1922, The Saturday Review, volume 133, page 359
  If there were, in clubs and places where men talk, unpleasant rumours as to himself he preferred it to be thought that he was the rip, not his wife the strumpet.
  1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not… (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 76

rip⁴

/ɹɪp/

noun
plural rips
1. (Scotland) A handful of unthreshed grain.

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