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tide rip

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tide⋅rip

[tahyd-rip]
–noun
a rip caused by conflicting tidal currents or by a tidal current crossing a rough bottom.

Origin:
1820–30; tide 1 + rip 2
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tide rip

noun
a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current [syn: rip
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