Meaning

15 senses
  1. A tear (in paper, etc.).

  2. A type of strong, rough tide or current.

    (Australia, New Zealand)A rip current: a strong outflow of surface water, away from the shore, that returns water from incoming waves.

  3. (in the plural)A tract of broken water (in a river or stream), particularly one which is not as rough as rapids.

  4. (slang)A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action.

  5. (slang)A hit (dose) of marijuana.

  6. (UK)A black mark given for substandard schoolwork.

  7. (slang)Something unfairly expensive, a rip-off.

  8. (slang)Data or audio copied from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable device, etc.

    Some of these CD rips don't sound very good: what bitrate did you use?

  9. (slang)A fart.

  10. (slang)Something ripped off or stolen; a work resulting from plagiarism.

  11. (informal)A kind of glissando leading up to the main note to be played.

  12. (Canada, slang)A joyride.

More definitions
  • a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current
  • an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
  • the act of rending or ripping or splitting something
  • a dissolute man in fashionable society

Examples

261 sentences
  1. Cardboard boxes rip easily.

    Картонні коробки легко рвуться. — deniko

  2. Boy, that was a rip-off.

  3. Tom tried to rip us off.

  4. Why did Tom rip us off?

  5. Tom is trying to rip us off.

Origin

From Middle English rippen, from earlier ryppen (“to pluck”), ultimately from Proto-German

From Middle English rippen, from earlier ryppen (“to pluck”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rupjaną, *ruppōną, intensive of *raupijaną, causative of Proto-Indo-European *roub- ~ *reub-, variant of *Hrewp- (“to break”).

Uncertain; perhaps a variant of rep (“reprobate”).

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Forms

plural: rips
Singularrip
Pluralrips

regular

Synonyms

14 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

21 related words

Collocations

4 patterns
  • got ripped off
  • ripped up the
  • got ripped
  • ripped open

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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