rip

1. 1

   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.transitive

   • to rip a garment; to rip up a floor
2. 2

   To tear apart; to rapidly become two parts.intransitive

   • My shirt ripped when it was caught on a bramble.
3. 3

   To remove violently or wrongly.transitive

   • A child untimely ripped from its parents' arms.
4. 4

   To get by, or as if by, cutting or tearing.transitive

   • He'll rip the fatal secret from her heart.
5. 5

   To move quickly and destructively.figurativelyintransitive

   • The tornado ripped through northern Nebraska.
6. 6

   To cut wood along (parallel to) the grain.

7. 7

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

8. 8

   To take a hit, dose or shot of a drug (such as marijuana) or alcohol.slang

   • He spent the day ripping shots at the bar and ripping blunts at home.
9. 9

   To fart audibly.slang

   • The rest of us had our days, but Dewey was consistent. He could fart on demand. If we were at a movie, one of us would whisper to Dewey, “Hey, Dewey, let one rip,” and he would smile, raise a leg, and let one go. He had one lined up ready f
10. 10

    To mock or criticize (someone or something). (often used with on and into)USslangsometimes

    • He spent the entire forty-five-minute ride home ripping on me: my makeup, my hair, my clothing, my “gear bag” (his cowboy slang for my purse).

syn. tear

1. 1

   A tear (in paper, etc.).

2. 2

   A type of strong, rough tide or current.; A rip current: a strong outflow of surface water, away from the shore, that returns water from incoming waves.AustraliaNew-Zealand

   • 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, Given that a large number of all rescue
3. 3

   A type of strong, rough tide or current.; A tract of broken water (in a river or stream), particularly one which is not as rough as rapids.in-plural

   • At rare intervals the water is smooth and deep, but the rips, rapids and falls give the river its distinctive character. About two and a half miles from its mouth it contracts somewhat, and plunges over a precipice one hundred feet high[…]
4. 4

   A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action.slang

5. 5

   A hit (dose) of marijuana.slang

6. 6

   A black mark given for substandard schoolwork.UK

7. 7

   Something unfairly expensive, a rip-off.slang

8. 8

   Data or audio copied from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable device, etc.slang

   • Some of these CD rips don't sound very good: what bitrate did you use?
9. 9

   Data or audio copied from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable device, etc.; Ellipsis of high quality rip.Internetabbreviationalt-of

10. 10

    A fart.slang

syn. tear

1. 1

   A worthless horse; a nag.colloquialdatedregional

2. 2

   An immoral man; a rake, a scoundrel.colloquialdatedregional

   • "Bad luck to yer, ye ould rip," sez he, "what a purty thrick yuv played me, to bring me here;" an' he still wint an yellin', and the farther they got an the bridge, the loudher he yelled[.]
   • Miss Compton, in 'Other People's Worries,' asks rhetorically whether a young rip was not in the Blank divorce case.

1. 1

   A handful of unthreshed grain.Scotland

1. 1

   Alternative letter-case form of RIP.Internetalt-of

   • lmfao rip your dms