English Explanatory Dictionary

rip

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To divide or separate the parts of (especially something flimsy, such as paper or fabric), by cutting or tearing; to tear off or out by violence.
  2. To tear apart; to rapidly become two parts.
  3. To remove violently or wrongly.
  4. To get by, or as if by, cutting or tearing.
  5. To move quickly and destructively.
  6. To cut wood along (parallel to) the grain.
  7. To copy data from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc., to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
  8. To take a hit, dose or shot of a drug (such as marijuana) or alcohol.
  9. To fart audibly.
  10. To mock or criticize (someone or something). (often used with on and into)
  11. To steal; to rip off.
  12. To move or act fast; to rush headlong.
noun
  1. A tear (in paper, etc.).
  2. A type of strong, rough tide or current.
  3. A rip current: a strong outflow of surface water, away from the shore, that returns water from incoming waves.
  4. A tract of broken water (in a river or stream), particularly one which is not as rough as rapids.
  5. A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action.
  6. A hit (dose) of marijuana.
  7. A black mark given for substandard schoolwork.
  8. Something unfairly expensive, a rip-off.
  9. Data or audio copied from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
  10. Ellipsis of high quality rip.
  11. A fart.
  12. Something ripped off or stolen; a work resulting from plagiarism.
noun
  1. A worthless horse; a nag.
  2. An immoral man; a rake, a scoundrel.
noun
  1. A handful of unthreshed grain.
intj
  1. Alternative letter-case form of RIP.
intj
  1. Initialism of requiescat in pace, requiescant in pace, or rest in peace (a blessing or expression of hope that a deceased person is at peace).
  2. Expressing disappointment at the fact that someone or something has come to an end or gone away.
  3. Expressing concern about something bad happening to someone or something.
  4. Expressing mild disappointment or embarrassment.
  5. Initialism of rest in piss.
  6. Initialism of rest in power.
name
  1. Routing information protocol, a dynamic routing protocol used in local and wide area networks.
noun
  1. Repeat-induced point mutation, a process by which both copies of duplicated sequences are mutated.
noun
  1. Initialism of reduction in pay.
noun
  1. Initialism of ribosome-inactivating protein.
name
  1. A male given name from Dutch.
  2. A diminutive of the male given name Ripley.

Pronunciation

rĭp /ɹɪp/ en-us-rip.ogg en-au-rip.ogg /ɑː(ɹ)aɪ ˈpiː/

Word forms

rip rips ripping ripped R.I.P.

Etymology

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”). See also West Frisian rippe, ripje, roppe, ropje (“to rip”), Dutch dialectal rippen, Low German ruppen, German Low German röpen, German rupfen, also Old English rīpan, rīepan (“to plunder”), West Frisian rippe (“to rip, tear”), German raufen (“to rip”); also Albanian rrabe ‘maquis’, possibly Latin rubus (“bramble”). More at reave, rob.

Synonyms

tear

Related words

ripper PBUH RHIP

Derived words

camrip let her rip let one rip let rip rip along rip-and-reader rip-and-tear rip a page out of someone's book rip a page out of someone's playbook rip apart rip ass rip down rip into rip it up rip off rip off the band-aid rip on rip one rip out rippable ripper ripping iron rip someone a new asshole rip someone a new one rip someone's face off rip someone's head off rip the piss rip to shreds rip up unrip uprip Big Rip give a rip high quality rip off the rip ripamatic rip box ripcord rip current rip entry rip fence ripgut brome ripgut fence riplock rip-off merchant ripple rippy rip-roaring rip-roaringly rip saw ripsawyer rip-snorting mad ripstop riptide rip tide siterip tide rip RIP in peace ripperoni RIP troll

Translations

Catalan: REP Chinese Mandarin: 安息 Dutch: RIV Esperanto: RP French: REP Galician: DEP German: RIF Hebrew: ע״ה Italian: RIP Polish: śp. Spanish: DEP Spanish: Q.E.P.D. Spanish: q. e. p. d. Tagalog: SLN
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