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.
to rip a garment; to rip up a floor
To tear apart; to rapidly become two parts.
My shirt ripped when it was caught on a bramble.
To remove violently or wrongly.
A child untimely ripped from its parents' arms.
A tear (in paper, etc.).
A type of strong, rough tide or current.
Rhythmic beaches consist of a rhythmic longshore bar that narrows and deepens when the rip crosses the breaker, and in between broadens, shoals and approaches the shore. It does not, however, reach the shore, with a continuous rip feeder channel feeding the rips to either side of the bar.
Alternative letter-case form of RIP.
lmfao rip your dms
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).
Routing information protocol, a dynamic routing protocol used in local and wide area networks.
A male given name from Dutch.
A diminutive of the male given name Ripley.
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 *...
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A worthless horse; a nag.
An immoral man; a rake, a scoundrel.
Miss Compton, in 'Other People's Worries,' asks rhetorically whether a young rip was not in the Blank divorce case.
A handful of unthreshed grain.
Initialism of reduction in pay.
[…] recommended as punishment a 55-day RIP (reduction in pay) but was overruled by higher authorities […]
Repeat-induced point mutation, a process by which both copies of duplicated sequences are mutated.
The RIP process can be extremely efficient. A linked duplication of 6 kb of Neurospora DNA, whose elements were separated by 7.5 kb of bacterial and unique Neurospora sequences, never survived a cross unrearranged.
RIP, Pope Francis.
Rip Weaver, Rip Rawlings