ripped

1. 1
   adjective

   Torn, whether only partway or all the way into separate pieces.

   He patched the ripped seam on his backpack with strong tape.

   The flag flapped overhead, ragged and ripped after weeks of storms.

   Similartorn, split, tattered, ragged

   Oppositeintact

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of rip.

   The wind ripped the roof off the old barn overnight.

   He had ripped his jeans climbing over the fence.

   Note

   The regular past of rip, with the final p doubled before -ed. One spelling serves the simple past (the wind ripped the roof off) and the participle after have or in the passive (the jeans were ripped). Because rip works both with and without an object, ripped can report what someone did to a thing or what the thing did by itself: the sail ripped. It also covers the figurative sense of moving quickly and destructively, as when a storm ripped through town.

3. 3
   adjective

   Having extremely low body fat, so that the underlying muscles (especially the abdominals) appear sharply defined.

   The bodybuilder stepped onstage looking absolutely ripped.

   Cutting calories for the competition left her noticeably ripped.

   Similarshredded, toned, muscular, chiseled, buff

   Oppositeflabby

   Note

   A gym-floor compliment that has moved well beyond bodybuilding. Ripped praises definition rather than bulk: it is fat stripped away until each muscle shows. Bodybuilding writing pairs it with words of the same kind. Ironman wrote of "raw, ripped mass" in 1988, and a 2010 training article promised "a cut, ripped midsection." Its near-neighbors are jacked and shredded. It is said most often of abdominal muscles and of the men who display them.

4. 4
   adjectiveslang

   Very drunk; heavily intoxicated by alcohol.

   Half the wedding guests were ripped before the toasts even began.

   He showed up to work still ripped from the night before.

   Similardrunk, wasted, hammered, plastered, smashed

   Oppositesober

   Note

   Slang for heavy drinking, and it usually comes with get or be: Lou Sullivan's diary of the early 1970s records drinking a whole bottle and getting "really really ripped." Keep it out of formal writing. Watch for its collision with the bodybuilding meaning. "He's ripped" can praise someone's physique or report that he is drunk, and only the setting tells you which.

5. 5
   adjective

   Lifted from someone else's work, typically from a source that can be named.

   He sold ripped movies out of the back of his van.

   Every beat on the demo sounded ripped, borrowed without any credit.

   Similarpirated, stolen, bootleg, plagiarized

   Oppositeoriginal

   Note

   Piracy is where this meaning meets the data-transfer meaning. By 2016, stream ripping, which turns online streams into files, was being called a fast-growing piracy method with 60% year-on-year growth. The two meanings can share a sentence, so context has to settle it. A ripped album may simply have been copied from a disc its owner bought, or it may have been taken without permission. When theft is meant, the copying is usually from a source that can be named.

6. 6
   adjective

   Transferred onto a hard disk from a CD, DVD, or other portable medium.

   She organized her ripped albums by genre on the laptop.

   The ripped files took up far less space than the originals.

7. 7
   adjective

   Pulled or torn away from something with great force.

   Firefighters climbed through the ripped paneling to reach the trapped driver.

   The bracket looked freshly ripped, pulled clean from its anchor.

   Similartorn

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