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1  [rip] verb, ripped, rip⋅ping, noun
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–verb (used with object)
1. to cut or tear apart in a rough or vigorous manner: to rip open a seam; to rip up a sheet.
2. to cut or tear away in a rough or vigorous manner: to rip bark from a tree.
3. to saw (wood) in the direction of the grain.
–verb (used without object)
4. to become torn apart or split open: Cheap cloth rips easily.
5. Informal. to move with violence or great speed: The sports car ripped along in a cloud of dust and exhaust fumes.
–noun
6. a rent made by ripping; tear.
7. Slang. a cheat, swindle, or theft; ripoff: The average consumer doesn't realize that the new tax is a rip.
—Verb phrases
8. rip into, Informal. to attack physically or verbally; assail.
9. rip off, Slang.
a. to steal or pilfer.
b. to rob or steal from.
c. to swindle, cheat, or exploit; take advantage of: phony charity appeals that rip off a gullible public.
10. rip out, Informal. to utter angrily, as with an oath or exclamation.
—Idiom
11. let rip, Slang.
a. to utter a series of oaths; swear.
b. to speak or write violently, rapidly, or at great length.
c. to allow to proceed at full speed or without restraint.
Origin:
1470–80; 1960–65 for def. 9; obscurely akin to Fris rippe, dial. D rippen; cf. dial. E ripple to scratch

Related forms:
rip⋅pa⋅ble, adjective

Synonyms:
1. See tear 2 . 6. laceration, cut.
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rip

  1. n.
    a drinking bout. (See also tear.) : Fred had another rip last night. He's rotten now.
  2. n.
    the loot from a rip-off. : Give him some of the rip and tell him to beat it.
  3. n.
    a theft; a rip-off. : The crooks pulled a rip on Fourth Street last night.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

rip  (v.)
"tear apart," c.1477, probably of North Sea Gmc. origin (cf. Flem. rippen "strip off roughly," Frisian rippe "to tear, rip") or else from a Scand. source (cf. Swed. reppa, Dan. rippe "to tear, rip"). In either case, probably imitative of the sound of cloth ripping. Meaning "to move with slashing force" (1798) is the sense in let her rip, Amer.Eng. colloquial phrase attested from 1853. The noun is attested from 1711; rip cord (1909) originally was in ballooning. The verbal phrase rip off "to steal or rob," is first recorded c.1967 in black slang, but rip was prison slang for "to steal" since 1904, and was also used in this sense in 12c. Rip-off (n.) is attested from 1970. Jack the Ripper contains a pun on ripper in sense of "tool for ripping" old slates, etc. (1793) and the slang meaning "a ripping fellow" (1838), from ripping "excellent, splendid" (1826).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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