Definition of Rip

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Definition of Rip

Rip

A wicker fish basket.

To divide or separate the parts of, by cutting or tearing; to tear or cut open or off; to tear off or out by violence; as, to rip a garment by cutting the stitches; to rip off the skin of a beast; to rip up a floor; -- commonly used with up, open, off.

To get by, or as by, cutting or tearing.

To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; -- usually with up.

To saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber.

A rent made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn; laceration.

A term applied to a mean, worthless thing or person, as to a scamp, a debauchee, or a prostitute, or a worn-out horse.

A body of water made rough by the meeting of opposing tides or currents.

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Rip Quotations

I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.
Mike Tyson

Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's all lies. I have never laid a finger on her.
Mike Tyson

When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.
Mike Tyson

Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.
Henry Miller

Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
Robin Williams

I'm on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave it, and then I'm gonna rip it off.
Ellen DeGeneres

It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
Wanda Sykes

You know what, rip me off once, shame on me. But twice? I'm coming after you and taking back what's mine.
Billy Mays

Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
Barbara Kingsolver

The one thing about Billie is he will snap and rip your head off if you point anything out at all other than how beautiful he is and how nice he looks today.
Tre Cool

Rip Translations

rip in Dutch is scheuren, rijten
rip in Italian is crepatura
rip in Portuguese is rasgo
rip in Spanish is raja

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