What does rip mean?

Definitions for rip
rɪprip

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word rip.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. rake, rakehell, profligate, rip, blood, rouenoun

    a dissolute man in fashionable society

  2. rip, rent, snag, split, tearnoun

    an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart

    "there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings"

  3. rip, riptide, tide rip, crosscurrent, countercurrentnoun

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

  4. rent, rip, splitverb

    the act of rending or ripping or splitting something

    "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip"

  5. rend, rip, rive, pullverb

    tear or be torn violently

    "The curtain ripped from top to bottom"; "pull the cooked chicken into strips"

  6. ripverb

    move precipitously or violently

    "The tornado ripped along the coast"

  7. ripverb

    cut (wood) along the grain

  8. ripverb

    criticize or abuse strongly and violently

    "The candidate ripped into his opponent mercilessly"

Wiktionary

  1. ripnoun

    A tear (in paper, etc).

  2. ripnoun

    A type of tide or current.

    A strong outflow of surface water, away from the shore, that returns water from incoming waves

  3. ripnoun

    A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action.

  4. ripnoun

    A "hit" of marijuana.

  5. ripverb

    To cause something, usually paper, to rapidly become two parts.

  6. ripverb

    To tear apart; to rapidly become two parts.

  7. ripverb

    To cut wood along (parallel to) the grain. Contrast crosscut.

  8. ripverb

    To copy data from CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable device, etc.

  9. ripverb

    To take a "hit" of marijuana.

  10. ripverb

    To fart.

  11. ripverb

    To mock or criticize.

  12. ripverb

    To steal; to rip off.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To RIPverb

    Etymology: hrpan , Saxon.

    You bloody Nero’s, ripping up the womb
    Of your dear mother England, blush for shame. William Shakespeare.

    Wilt thou dash their children, and rip up their women with child? 2 Kings viii. 12.

    The beast prevents the blow,
    And upward rips the groin of his audacious foe. Dryden.

    The ripping chissel is a socket chissel, about an inch broad, and hath a blunt edge. Joseph Moxon, Mechanical Exercises.

    Macduff was from his mother’s womb
    Untimely ripp’d. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

    Esculapius, because ripped from his mother’s womb, was feigned to be the son of Apollo. John Hayward.

    Rip this heart of mine
    Out of my breast, and shew it for a coward’s. Thomas Otway.

    The conscious husband
    Charges on her the guilt of their disease;
    Affecting fury acts a madman’s part,
    He’ll rip the fatal secret from her heart. George Granville.

    Let it be lawful for me to rip up to the very bottom, how and by whom your discipline was planted, at such time as this age we live in began to make first trial thereof. Richard Hooker.

    You rip up the original of Scotland. Edmund Spenser, on Ireland.

    This ripping of ancestors is very pleasing unto me, and indeed favoureth of some reading. Edmund Spenser, on Ireland.

    They ripped up all that had been done from the beginning of the rebellion. Edward Hyde, b. viii.

    The relations considering that a trial would rip up old sores, and discover things not so much to the reputation of the deceased, they dropt their design. Arbuthnot.

Wikipedia

  1. rip

    Rest in peace (R.I.P.), a phrase from the Latin requiescat in pace (Ecclesiastical Latin: [rekwiˈeskat in ˈpatʃe]), is sometimes used in traditional Christian services and prayers, such as in the Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican, and Methodist denominations, to wish the soul of a decedent eternal rest and peace. It became ubiquitous on headstones in the 18th century, and is widely used today when mentioning someone's death.

ChatGPT

  1. rip

    1) To tear or cut something quickly or forcefully. 2) In computing, to copy files or data from one source, such as CDs or DVDs, to a computer system or hard drive. 3) An abbreviation for 'Rest in Peace' which is commonly used as a respectful or sympathetic expression to someone who has died. 4) In surfing, to ride the waves skilfully. 5) In audio or video, it refers to the act of converting data into a particular format.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Ripnoun

    a wicker fish basket

  2. Ripverb

    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

  3. Ripverb

    to get by, or as by, cutting or tearing

  4. Ripverb

    to tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; -- usually with up

  5. Ripverb

    to saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber

  6. Ripnoun

    a rent made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn; laceration

  7. Ripnoun

    a term applied to a mean, worthless thing or person, as to a scamp, a debauchee, or a prostitute, or a worn-out horse

  8. Ripnoun

    a body of water made rough by the meeting of opposing tides or currents

  9. Etymology: [Perh. a corruption of the first syllable of reprobate.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Rip

    rip, v.t. to divide by cutting or tearing: to cut open: to take out by cutting or tearing: to tear up for search or alteration: to explode, give vent to.—v.i. to break out violently.—v.t. to utter violently (with out):—pr.p. rip′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. ripped.—n. a tear: a rent: a place torn: (slang) a vicious person: a worthless horse: a ripple. [Scand., Norw. ripa, to scratch; Ice. rífa, to rive.]

  2. Rip

    rip, n. (Scot.) a handful of grain not thrashed.

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. rip

    1. To extract the digital representation of a piece of music from an audio CD. Software that does this is often called a “CD ripper”. 2. [Amiga hackers] To extract sound or graphics from a program that they have been compiled/assembled into, or which generates them at run-time. In the case of older Amiga games this entails searching through memory shortly after a reboot. This sense has been in use for many years and probably gave rise to the (now more common) sense 1.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. rip

    A pannier or basket used for carrying fish.--To rip, to strip off a ship's planks.

Rap Dictionary

  1. ripverb

    Old street slang - to steal, stolen, to take agressively.

  2. ripverb

    to fu** - "man we ripped that girl at the party".

  3. ripacronym

    Rest in peace

  4. ripacronym

    as seen on Eminem's body, rot in pieces

Suggested Resources

  1. RIP

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Etymology and Origins

  1. Rip

    A corruption of “Rep.” See “Old Rep.”

British National Corpus

  1. Verbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'rip' in Verbs Frequency: #975

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of rip in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of rip in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of rip in a Sentence

  1. Mike Lampson and Rodney Sanders:

    His kids got stuck in that rip current, josh is the hero. He went out there. He paid the ultimate sacrifice. He gave his life for his kids.

  2. Chris Harrison:

    I have a very love-hate relationship with Bluetooth, because when it works, it's amazing, and when it doesn't, you want to rip your hair out.

  3. Eric Clapton:

    Farewell BB King. You were like a father to me in many ways over the years. The world is a much better place because you were here. Rest In Peace my friend. The Thrill Is finally Gone. # BBKing # RIP.

  4. André Aciman:

    We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything—what a waste

  5. Gretchen Whitmer:

    The most important economic decision a woman makes in her lifetime is when and whether to have a child and this court decision threatens to rip that away from every woman in the country, it's going to be up to governors and that's why this fight is so important.

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