Definitions for RIPrɪp
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rake, rakehell, profligate, rip, blood, roue(noun)
a dissolute man in fashionable society
rip, rent, snag, split, tear(noun)
an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
"there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings"
rip, riptide, tide rip, crosscurrent, countercurrent(noun)
a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current
rent, rip, split(verb)
the act of rending or ripping or splitting something
"he gave the envelope a vigorous rip"
rend, rip, rive, pull(verb)
tear or be torn violently
"The curtain ripped from top to bottom"; "pull the cooked chicken into strips"
move precipitously or violently
"The tornado ripped along the coast"
cut (wood) along the grain
criticize or abuse strongly and violently
"The candidate ripped into his opponent mercilessly"
A tear (in paper, etc).
A type of tide or current.
A strong outflow of surface water, away from the shore, that returns water from incoming waves
A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action.
A "hit" of marijuana.
To cause something, usually paper, to rapidly become two parts.
To tear apart; to rapidly become two parts.
To cut wood along (parallel to) the grain. Contrast crosscut.
To copy data from CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
To take a "hit" of marijuana.
To mock or criticize.
To steal; to rip off.
a wicker fish basket
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
to get by, or as by, cutting or tearing
to tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; -- usually with up
to saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber
a rent made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn; laceration
a term applied to a mean, worthless thing or person, as to a scamp, a debauchee, or a prostitute, or a worn-out horse
a body of water made rough by the meeting of opposing tides or currents
Origin: [Perh. a corruption of the first syllable of reprobate.]
The New Hacker's Dictionary
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.
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Rank popularity for the word 'RIP' in Verbs Frequency: #975
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