Rip \Rip\, n. [Cf. Icel. hrip a box or basket; perhaps akin to
   E. corb. Cf. Ripier.]
   A wicker fish basket.
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	Rip \Rip\, n.
   1. A rent made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear;
      a place torn; laceration.
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   2. [Perh. a corruption of the first syllable of reprobate.] A
      term applied to a mean, worthless thing or person, as to a
      scamp, a debauchee, or a prostitute, or a worn-out horse.
      [Slang.]
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   3. A body of water made rough by the meeting of opposing
      tides or currents.
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	Rip \Rip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ripped; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Ripping.] [Cf. AS. r[=y]pan, also Sw. repa to ripple flax,
   D. repelen, G. reffen, riffeln, and E. raff, raffle. Cf.
   Raff, Ripple of flax.]
   1. 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.
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   2. To get by, or as by, cutting or tearing.
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            He 'll rip the fatal secret from her heart.
                                                  --Granville.
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   3. To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to
      search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; -- usually
      with up.
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            They ripped up all that had been done from the
            beginning of the rebellion.           --Clarendon.
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            For brethern to debate and rip up their falling out
            in the ear of a common enemy . . . is neither wise
            nor comely.                           --Milton.
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   4. To saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber.
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   Ripping chisel (Carp.), a crooked chisel for cleaning out
      mortises. --Knight.

   Ripping iron. (Shipbuilding) Same as Ravehook.

   Ripping saw. (Carp.) See Ripsaw.

   To rip out, to rap out, to utter hastily and violently; as,
      to rip out an oath. [Colloq.] See To rap out, under
      Rap, v. t.
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	rip
    n 1: a dissolute man in fashionable society [syn: rake,
         rakehell, profligate, rip, blood, roue]
    2: an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart; "there was a
       rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings" [syn:
       rip, rent, snag, split, tear]
    3: a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by
       one current flowing into or across another current [syn:
       rip, riptide, tide rip, crosscurrent,
       countercurrent]
    4: the act of rending or ripping or splitting something; "he
       gave the envelope a vigorous rip" [syn: rent, rip,
       split]
    v 1: tear or be torn violently; "The curtain ripped from top to
         bottom"; "pull the cooked chicken into strips" [syn:
         rend, rip, rive, pull]
    2: move precipitously or violently; "The tornado ripped along
       the coast"
    3: cut (wood) along the grain
    4: criticize or abuse strongly and violently; "The candidate
       ripped into his opponent mercilessly"

	

	242 Moby Thesaurus words for "rip":
   Casanova, Don Juan, Lothario, abrade, abrasion, agonize, badger,
   ball the jack, bark, barrel, blackmail, blemish, bloody, boom,
   bowl along, breach, break, breakage, breeze, breeze along, broach,
   brush, burn, burst, chafe, check, chink, chip, claw, cleave, cleft,
   clip, concussion, convulse, crack, crackle, craze, crevasse,
   crucify, cut, cut along, cut open, debauchee, defoliate, denude,
   direct tide, dismember, dispart, divaricate, divide,
   draw and quarter, ebb, ebb and flow, ebb tide, exact, excruciate,
   extort, fissure, flash burn, flay, fleet, flit, flood, flood tide,
   flow, flux, flux and reflux, fly, fly low, fly open, foot,
   force from, fracture, fray, frazzle, fret, full tide, gall,
   gallant, gap, gash, gay deceiver, gay dog, go fast, harrow,
   high tide, high water, highball, hurt, impale, incise, incision,
   injure, injury, kill by inches, lacerate, laceration, lady-killer,
   lancinate, lay open, lesion, levy blackmail, libertine, lover-boy,
   low tide, low water, lunar tide, macerate, maim, make knots,
   make mincemeat of, mangle, martyr, martyrize, maul, mortal wound,
   mutilate, mutilation, neap, neap tide, nip, ope, open, open up,
   opposite tide, outstrip the wind, part, peel, philanderer,
   pick to pieces, pierce, pour it on, profligate, pry loose from,
   pull apart, puncture, punish, rack, rake, rakehell, refluence,
   reflux, rend, rend from, rent, rift, rip from, riptide, rive, roue,
   rounder, run, rupture, savage, scald, scale, scarify, scorch,
   scotch, scrape, scratch, screw, scuff, second-degree burn,
   separate, shake down, shred, sizzle, skim, skin, skirt chaser,
   slash, slice, slit, snatch from, solar tide, sore, speed, splinter,
   split, sprain, spread, spread out, spring open, spring tide,
   squeeze, stab, stab wound, stick, storm along, strain, strip,
   sweep, swing open, swinger, take apart, tap, tear, tear along,
   tear apart, tear from, tear open, tear to pieces, tear to tatters,
   thalassometer, third-degree burn, throw open, thunder along,
   tidal amplitude, tidal current, tidal current chart, tidal flow,
   tidal range, tide, tide chart, tide gate, tide gauge, tide race,
   tide rip, tidewater, tideway, torment, torture, trauma, traumatize,
   walking phallus, wanton, whisk, whiz, wolf, woman chaser,
   womanizer, wound, wounds immedicable, wrench, wrench from, wrest,
   wring, wring from, zing, zip, zoom

	

	RIP
       Remote Imaging Protocol (BBS)

	

	RIP
       Raster Image Processor (DTP)

	

	RIP
       Return Instruction Pointer (CPU, RAM)

	

	RIP
       Routing Information Protocol (BSD, IGP, RFC 1721, IP)

	

	rip
 v.

    1. To extract the digital representation of a piece of music from an audio
    CD. Software that does this is often called a ?CD ripper?.

    2. [Amiga hackers] To extract sound or graphics from a program that they
    have been compiled/assembled into, or which generates them at run-time. In
    the case of older Amiga games this entails searching through memory shortly
    after a reboot. This sense has been in use for many years and probably gave
    rise to the (now more common) sense 1.

	

	RIP

   1.  Routing Information Protocol.

   2.  Raster Image Processor.

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	rip
ripper

    (From "rip off" - to steal) To copy
   audio or video, typically from a compact disc or DVD, to a
   file on a computer hard disk.  A dedicated program to do
   this is called a "ripper" though it is often a function of
   player software.

   Ripping usually includes converting the data to a format that
   is more suitable for computer playback, e.g. MP3 digital
   audio or DivX video.  The process is entirely digital so it
   is possible to make a perfect copy of the data.  However the
   resulting files are large (a few megabytes for an audio
   track, a few gigabytes for a film) so the conversion often
   includes compression to reduce the file size at the cost of
   some loss of quality.

   While it may be legal to do this for personal use,
   distributing a ripped copyright work to others could result in
   prosecution.

   See also ripcording.

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	R.I.P.  A careless abbreviation of _requiescat in pace_, attesting to
indolent goodwill to the dead.  According to the learned Dr. Drigge,
however, the letters originally meant nothing more than _reductus in
pulvis_.