1. Tear or be torn violently
   "The curtain ripped from top to bottom";
   - rend, rive [archaic], pull
    
2. Move precipitously or violently
   "The tornado ripped along the coast"
    
3. Cut (wood) along the grain
   "The carpenter ripped the board to the correct width"
    
4. [N. Amer, informal] Take without the owner's consent
   "Someone ripped off my wallet on the train";
   - steal, rip off [informal]
    
5. [informal] Criticize or abuse strongly and violently
   "The candidate ripped into his opponent mercilessly";
   - rip into
    
6. [informal] (computing) copy data, esp. music or video, from an optical disk (such as a CD or DVD) to a hard drive or another re-writable storage device
   "He ripped his entire CD collection to his computer's hard drive"

1. An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
   "there was a rip in his pants";
   - rent, snag, split, tear
    
2. The act of rending, ripping or splitting something
   "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip";
   - rent, split
    
3. A stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current
   "The boat struggled to navigate through the tide rip";
   - riptide, tide rip, crosscurrent, countercurrent
    
4. A dissolute man in fashionable society
   "The rip's scandalous behaviour was the talk of the town";
   - rake, rakehell [archaic], profligate, blood [archaic], roué [archaic]

1. (used on gravestones) Rest In Peace

Derived forms: ripping, ripped, rips

Type of: assail, assault, attack, bomb [Brit, informal], buck, bust [informal], charge, cut, debauchee [archaic], gap, lash out, libertine, opening, round, rounder, rupture, scream [informal], shoot, shoot down, snap, take, tear, turbulence, turbulency

Encyclopedia: Rip, Sew and Stitch