Definition of rips Rips
/ΙΉΙͺΛps/ - [rips] -
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Wiktionary 
- rips (Noun)
Plural of rip.
Part of speech
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NounPlural: rips |
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| rip - an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart; "there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings" | ||
| rent, snag, split, tear | ||
| gap, opening a narrow opening; "he opened the window a crack" | ||
| rip - a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current | ||
| riptide, tide rip, crosscurrent, countercurrent | ||
| rip - the act of rending or ripping or splitting something; "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip" | ||
| rent, split | ||
| tear the act of tearing; "he took the manuscript in both hands and gave it a mighty tear" | ||
| rip - a dissolute man in fashionable society | ||
| rake, rakehell, profligate, blood, roue | ||
| debauchee, libertine, rounder a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained | ||
Verb |
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| rip - criticize or abuse strongly and violently; "The candidate ripped into his opponent mercilessly" | ||
| lash out, assail, assault, snipe, attack, round attack someone physically or emotionally; "The mugger assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly" | ||
| rip - cut (wood) along the grain | ||
| cut grow through the gums; "The new tooth is cutting" | ||
| rip - move precipitously or violently; "The tornado ripped along the coast" | ||
| shoot down, buck, tear, shoot, charge jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched; "the yung filly bucked" | ||
| rip - tear or be torn violently; "The curtain ripped from top to bottom"; "pull the cooked chicken into strips" | ||
| rend, rive, pull | ||
| rupture, bust, tear, snap fill with tears or shed tears; "Her eyes were tearing" | ||
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Wiktionary
- rip (Noun)
A tear in paper, etc.. - rip (Noun)
A type of tide or current. - rip (Noun)
A strong outflow of surface water, away from the shore, that returns water from incoming waves. - rip (Noun)
2000, Andrew Short, Beaches of the Queensland Coast: Cooktown to Coolangatta, page 38. - rip (Noun)
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. - rip (Noun)
2005, Paul Smitz, Australia & New Zealand on a Shoestring, Lonely Planet, page 466. - rip (Noun)
Undertows or βripsβ are the main problem. If you find yourself being carried out by a rip, the important thing to do is just keep afloat; donβ²t 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. - rip (Noun)
2010, Jeff Wilks, Donna Prendergast, Chapter Beach Safety and Millennium Youth: Travellers and Sentinels, Pierre Benckendorff, Gianna Moscardo, Donna Pendergast, Tourism and Generation Y, page 100. - rip (Noun)
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. - rip (Noun)
A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action. - rip (Noun)
A hit dose of marijuana. - rip (Noun)
A mean, worthless thing or person, such as a debauchee or a worn-out horse. - rip (Verb)
To cause something, usually paper, to rapidly become two parts. - rip (Verb)
To tear apart; to rapidly become two parts. - rip (Verb)
To cut wood along parallel to the grain. Contrast crosscut. - rip (Verb)
To copy data from CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive , portable device, etc. - rip (Verb)
To take a "hit" of marijuana. - rip (Verb)
To fart. - rip (Verb)
To mock or criticize. - rip (Verb)
To steal; to rip off . - rip (Verb)
To move or act fast, to rush headlong.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary π
- rip (n.)
A wicker fish basket. - rip (v. t.)
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. - rip (v. t.)
To get by, or as by, cutting or tearing. - rip (v. t.)
To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; -- usually with up. - rip (v. t.)
To saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber. - rip (n.)
A rent made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn; laceration. - rip (n.)
A term applied to a mean, worthless thing or person, as to a scamp, a debauchee, or a prostitute, or a worn-out horse. - rip (n.)
A body of water made rough by the meeting of opposing tides or currents.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ξ©
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To tear or be torn violently. -
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An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart.
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book β΅
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rip
A pannier or basket used for carrying fish.--To rip, to strip off a ship's planks.
Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue π
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A miserable rip; a poor, lean, worn-out horse. A shabby mean fellow.
