'RIP' definitions:
Definition of 'rip'
From: WordNet
noun
noun
An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart; "there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings" [syn: rip, rent, snag, split, tear]
noun
A stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current [syn: rip, riptide, tide rip, crosscurrent, countercurrent]
noun
The act of rending or ripping or splitting something; "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip" [syn: rent, rip, split]
verb
Tear or be torn violently; "The curtain ripped from top to bottom"; "pull the cooked chicken into strips" [syn: rend, rip, rive, pull]
verb
Move precipitously or violently; "The tornado ripped along the coast"
verb
Cut (wood) along the grain
verb
Criticize or abuse strongly and violently; "The candidate ripped into his opponent mercilessly"
Definition of 'Rip'
From: GCIDE
- Rip \Rip\, n.
- 1. A rent made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn; laceration. [1913 Webster]
- 2. [Perh. a corruption of the first syllable of reprobate.] A term applied to a mean, worthless thing or person, as to a scamp, a debauchee, or a prostitute, or a worn-out horse. [Slang.] [1913 Webster]
- 3. A body of water made rough by the meeting of opposing tides or currents. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Rip'
From: GCIDE
- Rip \Rip\, n. [Cf. Icel. hrip a box or basket; perhaps akin to E. corb. Cf. Ripier.] A wicker fish basket. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Rip'
From: GCIDE
- Rip \Rip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ripped; p. pr. & vb. n. Ripping.] [Cf. AS. r[=y]pan, also Sw. repa to ripple flax, D. repelen, G. reffen, riffeln, and E. raff, raffle. Cf. Raff, Ripple of flax.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To get by, or as by, cutting or tearing. [1913 Webster]
- He 'll rip the fatal secret from her heart. --Granville. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; -- usually with up. [1913 Webster]
- They ripped up all that had been done from the beginning of the rebellion. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster]
- For brethern to debate and rip up their falling out in the ear of a common enemy . . . is neither wise nor comely. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber. [1913 Webster]
- Ripping chisel (Carp.), a crooked chisel for cleaning out mortises. --Knight.
- Ripping iron. (Shipbuilding) Same as Ravehook.
- Ripping saw. (Carp.) See Ripsaw.
- To rip out, to rap out, to utter hastily and violently; as, to rip out an oath. [Colloq.] See To rap out, under Rap, v. t. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'rip'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abrade,
- abrasion,
- agonize,
- badger,
- ball the jack,
- bark,
- barrel,
- blackmail,
- blemish,
- bloody,
- boom,
- bowl along,
- breach,
- break,
- breakage,
- breeze,
- breeze along,
- broach,
- brush,
- burn,
- burst,
- Casanova,
- chafe,
- check,
- chink,
- chip,
- claw,
- cleave,
- cleft,
- clip,
- concussion,
- convulse,
- crack,
- crackle,
- craze,
- crevasse,
- crucify,
- cut,
- cut along,
- cut open,
- debauchee,
- defoliate,
- denude,
- direct tide,
- dismember,
- dispart,
- divaricate,
- divide,
- Don Juan,
- draw and quarter,
- ebb,
- ebb and flow,
- ebb tide,
- exact,
- excruciate,
- extort,
- fissure,
- flash burn,
- flay,
- fleet,
- flit,
- flood,
- flood tide,
- flow,
- flux,
- flux and reflux,
- fly,
- fly low,
- fly open,
- foot,
- force from,
- fracture,
- fray,
- frazzle,
- fret,
- full tide,
- gall,
- gallant,
- gap,
- gash,
- gay deceiver,
- gay dog,
- go fast,
- harrow,
- high tide,
- high water,
- highball,
- hurt,
- impale,
- incise,
- incision,
- injure,
- injury,
- kill by inches,
- lacerate,
- laceration,
- lady-killer,
- lancinate,
- lay open,
- lesion,
- levy blackmail,
- libertine,
- Lothario,
- lover-boy,
- low tide,
- low water,
- lunar tide,
- macerate,
- maim,
- make knots,
- make mincemeat of,
- mangle,
- martyr,
- martyrize,
- maul,
- mortal wound,
- mutilate,
- mutilation,
- neap,
- neap tide,
- nip,
- ope,
- open,
- open up,
- opposite tide,
- outstrip the wind,
- part,
- peel,
- philanderer,
- pick to pieces,
- pierce,
- pour it on,
- profligate,
- pry loose from,
- pull apart,
- puncture,
- punish,
- rack,
- rake,
- rakehell,
- refluence,
- reflux,
- rend,
- rend from,
- rent,
- rift,
- rip from,
- riptide,
- rive,
- roue,
- rounder,
- run,
- rupture,
- savage,
- scald,
- scale,
- scarify,
- scorch,
- scotch,
- scrape,
- scratch,
- screw,
- scuff,
- second-degree burn,
- separate,
- shake down,
- shred,
- sizzle,
- skim,
- skin,
- skirt chaser,
- slash,
- slice,
- slit,
- snatch from,
- solar tide,
- sore,
- speed,
- splinter,
- split,
- sprain,
- spread,
- spread out,
- spring open,
- spring tide,
- squeeze,
- stab,
- stab wound,
- stick,
- storm along,
- strain,
- strip,
- sweep,
- swing open,
- swinger,
- take apart,
- tap,
- tear,
- tear along,
- tear apart,
- tear from,
- tear open,
- tear to pieces,
- tear to tatters,
- thalassometer,
- third-degree burn,
- throw open,
- thunder along,
- tidal amplitude,
- tidal current,
- tidal current chart,
- tidal flow,
- tidal range,
- tide,
- tide chart,
- tide gate,
- tide gauge,
- tide race,
- tide rip,
- tidewater,
- tideway,
- torment,
- torture,
- trauma,
- traumatize,
- walking phallus,
- wanton,
- whisk,
- whiz,
- wolf,
- woman chaser,
- womanizer,
- wound,
- wounds immedicable,
- wrench,
- wrench from,
- wrest,
- wring,
- wring from,
- zing,
- zip,
- zoom
Acronyms for 'RIP'
From: V.E.R.A.
- Raster Image Processor (DTP)
- Remote Imaging Protocol (BBS)
- Return Instruction Pointer (CPU, RAM)
- Routing Information Protocol (BSD, IGP, RFC 1721, IP)