# rip

Pronunciation: say "RIP" /ɹɪp/

## Verb

1. To tear something, or to become torn, especially quickly or forcefully; also, to pull or tear something off, out, or away.
   - Simple: To tear something, or to become torn, quickly or roughly. Also to pull something off or out by tearing.
   - _The storm ripped the shingles off half the roofs on our street._
   - _They plan to rip up the old carpet and sand the floors underneath._
3. To remove someone or something violently or unjustly.
   - Simple: To take someone or something away by force or in a wrong way.
   - _Critics say the new law would rip children away from the only country they have known._
   - _Families were ripped from their homes and sent to camps across the border._
5. To move or act very fast and with force, often destructively, especially through a place or a task.
   - Simple: To move or go through something very fast and with great force.
   - _Tornadoes rip through this part of the plains almost every spring._
   - _The virus ripped through the crowded prison within days._
6. To steal or rip off something, especially code or graphics made by someone else. *(slang)*
   - Simple: To steal something, such as someone else's code or graphics.
   - _Coders who rip routines from other groups quickly lose respect in the scene._
   - _The judges disqualified the entry after learning it had ripped its effects from an older demo._
8. To copy data from a CD, DVD, online stream, or similar source onto a hard drive, portable device, or other storage.
   - Simple: To copy music, video, or other data from a CD, DVD, or the internet onto a computer or device.
   - _Some apps let you rip the audio from a video stream in seconds._
   - _He spent the weekend ripping his whole CD collection to an external hard drive._
11. To mock or criticize someone or something, often in the phrases rip on and rip into. *(slang, US)*
   - Simple: To make fun of or criticize someone or something.
   - _Fans love to rip the front office whenever it makes a bad trade._
   - _Late-night hosts ripped into the senator over his latest gaffe._
12. To be excellent or exciting; also, to perform exceptionally well, especially in surfing or similar board sports. *(slang)*
   - Simple: To be very good or exciting, or to do something very well, especially surfing.
   - _Their new album rips from the first track to the last._
   - _Say what you want about the venue, but the bands on this lineup rip._
15. To cut wood along the grain, parallel to it rather than across it.
   - Simple: To cut a piece of wood along its grain, not across it.
   - _Rip each board to width before you cut it to length._
   - _The carpenter ripped a long oak plank into narrow strips for the trim._
17. To consume alcohol or a drug, marijuana for instance, in a single shot, hit, or dose. *(slang)*
   - Simple: To take a shot of alcohol or a hit of a drug, such as marijuana.
   - _By midnight the groomsmen were ripping shots of tequila at the bar._
   - _Before the concert, a few friends slipped out to rip a bong in the parking lot._
21. To pass gas from the bowels loudly enough to be heard. *(slang)*
   - Simple: To fart loudly, so other people can hear it.
   - _Somebody ripped one during the quietest scene of the movie, and the whole row groaned._
   - _The old dog tends to rip a loud one whenever guests sit down to dinner._

## Noun

2. A tear, as in paper, cloth, or a similar material.
   - Simple: A tear or split in paper, cloth, or something similar.
   - _A long rip ran down the side of the tent after the storm._
   - _The old book had small rips along the edges of several pages._
7. Something that is unfairly overpriced; a rip-off. *(slang)*
   - Simple: Something that costs much more than it should.
   - _Forty bucks for a T-shirt is a rip, even at a festival._
   - _Everyone at the meeting agreed the new airport parking fees were a rip._
9. A strong outflow of surface water away from the shore that carries back the water brought in by waves; a rip current. *(Australia, New Zealand)*
   - Simple: A strong current of water that flows away from the beach and can pull swimmers out to sea.
   - _If a rip drags you out, float and swim parallel to the beach rather than against it._
   - _The surfers paddled into the rip to get out past the breakers quickly._
10. Something stolen or copied without permission, including a piece of work produced by plagiarism. *(slang)*
   - Simple: Something stolen or copied, such as art or music someone copied and called their own.
   - _The artist swore the picture was his own, but everyone in the scene knew it was a rip._
   - _Half the pixel art in that demo turned out to be rips from commercial games._
14. Audio or other data copied from a CD, DVD, internet stream, or similar source onto a hard drive, portable device, or the like. *(slang)*
   - Simple: Music or other data copied from a CD, DVD, or online stream onto a computer or device.
   - _She keeps high-quality rips of all her old CDs on an external drive._
   - _This rip of the concert stream cuts off right before the encore._
16. Short for ripsaw: a saw designed to make cuts parallel to the grain of wood. — Ellipsis of ripsaw (“saw for cutting wood along its grain”).
   - Simple: Short for ripsaw: a saw that cuts wood along the grain.
   - _He kept a rip and a crosscut hanging side by side above the workbench._
   - _For long cuts down the length of a plank, the old carpenter always reached for his rip._
18. A single hit, or dose, of marijuana. *(slang)*
   - Simple: One hit of marijuana, the amount someone takes at one time.
   - _He took a long rip from the pipe and held the smoke in._
   - _After a couple of rips from the bong, he was laughing at the commercials._
19. A stretch of broken water in a river or stream, especially one less rough than rapids.
   - Simple: A part of a river or stream with broken, bumpy water, usually gentler than rapids.
   - _The canoes slid through a mile of easy rips before the river widened into the lake._
   - _Below the old mill, the river breaks into shallow rips that anglers can wade._
20. An act of breaking wind; a fart. *(slang)*
   - Simple: A fart, the gas that comes out of the body from behind.
   - _Someone in the back row let out a rip during the exam, and the smell reached the front in seconds._
   - _After a bowl of bean chili, the dog's rips could clear a room._

## Interjection · RIP

Pronunciation: say "ahr-y-PEE" US /ˌɑɹ aɪ ˈpi/, UK /ˌɑːɹ aɪ ˈpiː/

4. Short for requiescat in pace or rest in peace: said or written of someone who has died, wishing them peace.
   - Simple: Short for requiescat in pace, or rest in peace: said about someone who has died.
   - _Fans flooded the singer's page with RIP messages after the news broke._
   - _RIP to a true gentleman who never had a bad word for anyone._
13. Used informally, often humorously or ironically, to mourn something that has ended or gone, to express mild disappointment or embarrassment, or to suggest that someone is in for trouble. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: Used jokingly to say goodbye to something lost, to show mild disappointment, or to say someone is in trouble.
   - _RIP to the old school gym, which they finally tore down this spring._
   - _The bakery on the corner closed after forty years. RIP, best croissants in town._
22. Short for rest in piss: a mocking twist on rest in peace, aimed at a disliked person who has died or met with misfortune. — Initialism of rest in piss.
   - Simple: Short for rest in piss: a rude way to mock someone who died or had bad luck.

## Other meanings

- (noun) An event or action that is comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical.
- (noun) A type of glissando that slides upward into the main note to be played.
- (verb) To tear open or dig into something to examine, change, or reveal it, usually with up, as in ripping up old grievances.
- (noun) A black mark recorded against a pupil whose schoolwork falls below the expected standard.
- (noun) A ride or drive in a motor vehicle taken purely for fun.
- (noun) An old or worn-out horse of little value.
- (noun) A man of loose morals, a rogue or libertine.
- (noun) A small bundle of grain stalks that have not yet been threshed.
- (proper noun) A man's first name that comes from Dutch, as in Rip Van Winkle.
- (proper noun) Short form used as a nickname for someone called Ripley.
- (interjection) Abbreviation of rest in power, said in honor of someone who has died, especially an activist or a victim of injustice.
- (proper noun) Short for Routing Information Protocol, a standard method computer networks use to share and update routes between routers.
- (noun) A genetic process in some fungi, called repeat-induced point mutation, that introduces mutations into duplicated stretches of DNA.
- (noun) Short for reduction in pay, a cut in someone's wages.
- (noun) Short for ribosome-inactivating protein, a toxin that damages ribosomes and so stops cells making proteins.

## Origin

**Meanings 1–3, 5–12, 14–21** — Middle English rippen came from earlier ryppen ("to pluck"). Behind it is Proto-Germanic *rupjaną or *ruppōną, probably from Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp- ("to break"). Relatives include West Frisian rippe, Low German ruppen, German rupfen and raufen ("to rip"), and English reave and rob.
**Meanings 4, 13, 22** — From the Latin initials RIP, for requiescat in pace ("may he or she rest in peace"), which also fit the English rest in peace.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/rip (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).