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rip

UK/ɹɪp/ US/ɹɪp/ common informal slang uk us
verb (4) noun (4)

verb

1.

tear or be torn violently

  • “The curtain ripped from top to bottom”
  • “pull the cooked chicken into strips”
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2.

move precipitously or violently

  • “The tornado ripped along the coast”
3.
4.

criticize or abuse strongly and violently

  • “The candidate ripped into his opponent mercilessly”

noun

1.
2.

an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart

  • “there was a rip in his pants”
  • “she had snags in her stockings”
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3.

a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current

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4.

the act of rending or ripping or splitting something

  • “he gave the envelope a vigorous rip”
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Origin

From Middle English rippen, from earlier ryppen (“to pluck”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rupjaną, *ruppōną, intensive of *raupijaną, causative of Proto-Indo-European *roub- ~ *reub-, variant of *Hrewp- (“to break”). See also West Frisian rippe, ripje, roppe, ropje (“to rip”), Dutch dialectal rippen, Low German ruppen, German Low German röpen, German rupfen, also Old English rīpan, rīepan (“to plunder”), West Frisian rippe (“to rip, tear”), German raufen (“to rip”); also Albanian rrabe ‘maquis’, possibly Latin rubus (“bramble”). More at reave, rob.

Phrases

  • Big Rip
  • give a rip
  • high quality rip
  • let her rip
  • let one rip
  • let rip
  • off the rip
  • rip a page out of someone's book
  • rip a page out of someone's playbook
  • rip along
  • rip apart
  • rip ass

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