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rips

 
Noun rip has 4 senses
  1. rake, profligate, rip, blood, roue - a dissolute man in fashionable society
    --1 is a kind of libertine, debauchee, rounder
  2. rip, rent, snag, split, tear - an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart; "there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings"
    --2 is a kind of opening, gap
    Derived form: verb rip1
  3. rip, riptide, tide rip, crosscurrent, countercurrent - a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current
    --3 is a kind of turbulence, turbulency
  4. rent, rip, split - the act of rending or ripping or splitting something; "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip"
    --4 is a kind of tear
    Derived form: verb rip1
Verb rip has 4 senses
  1. rend, rip, rive, pull - tear or be torn violently; "The curtain ripped from top to bottom"; "pull the cooked chicken into strips"
    --1 is one way to tear, rupture, snap, bust
    Derived forms: noun rip4, noun rip2
    Sample sentence:
    They rip the sheets
  2. rip - move precipitously or violently; "The tornado ripped along the coast"
    --2 is one way to
    tear, shoot, shoot down, charge, buck
    Sample sentences:
    Something is ----ing PP
    Somebody ----s PP
  3. rip - cut (wood) along the grain
    --3 is one way to
    cut
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  4. rip - criticize or abuse strongly and violently; "The candidate ripped into his opponent mercilessly"
    --4 is one way to
    attack, round, assail, lash out, snipe, assault
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s PP
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