Definitions for RIP
rɪprip

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. rake, rakehell, profligate, rip, blood, rouenoun

   a dissolute man in fashionable society

2. rip, rent, snag, split, tearnoun

   an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart

   "there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings"

3. rip, riptide, tide rip, crosscurrent, countercurrentnoun

   a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current

4. rent, rip, splitverb

   the act of rending or ripping or splitting something

   "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip"

5. rend, rip, rive, pullverb

   tear or be torn violently

   "The curtain ripped from top to bottom"; "pull the cooked chicken into strips"

6. ripverb

   move precipitously or violently

   "The tornado ripped along the coast"

7. ripverb

   cut (wood) along the grain

8. ripverb

   criticize or abuse strongly and violently

   "The candidate ripped into his opponent mercilessly"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ripnoun

   A tear (in paper, etc).

2. ripnoun

   A type of tide or current.

   A strong outflow of surface water, away from the shore, that returns water from incoming waves

3. ripnoun

   A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action.

4. ripnoun

   A "hit" of marijuana.

5. ripverb

   To cause something, usually paper, to rapidly become two parts.

6. ripverb

   To tear apart; to rapidly become two parts.

7. ripverb

   To cut wood along (parallel to) the grain. Contrast crosscut.

8. ripverb

   To copy data from CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable device, etc.

9. ripverb

   To take a "hit" of marijuana.

10. ripverb

    To fart.

11. ripverb

    To mock or criticize.

12. ripverb

    To steal; to rip off.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To RIPverb

   Etymology: hrpan , Saxon.

   1. To tear; to lacerate; to cut asunder by a continued act of the knife.

   You bloody Nero’s, ripping up the womb
   Of your dear mother England, blush for shame. William Shakespeare.

   Wilt thou dash their children, and rip up their women with child? 2 Kings viii. 12.

   The beast prevents the blow,
   And upward rips the groin of his audacious foe. Dryden.

   The ripping chissel is a socket chissel, about an inch broad, and hath a blunt edge. Joseph Moxon, Mechanical Exercises.

   2. To take away by laceration or cutting.

   Macduff was from his mother’s womb
   Untimely ripp’d. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   Esculapius, because ripped from his mother’s womb, was feigned to be the son of Apollo. John Hayward.

   Rip this heart of mine
   Out of my breast, and shew it for a coward’s. Thomas Otway.

   The conscious husband
   Charges on her the guilt of their disease;
   Affecting fury acts a madman’s part,
   He’ll rip the fatal secret from her heart. George Granville.

   3. To disclose; to search out; to tear up; to bring to view.

   Let it be lawful for me to rip up to the very bottom, how and by whom your discipline was planted, at such time as this age we live in began to make first trial thereof. Richard Hooker.

   You rip up the original of Scotland. Edmund Spenser, on Ireland.

   This ripping of ancestors is very pleasing unto me, and indeed favoureth of some reading. Edmund Spenser, on Ireland.

   They ripped up all that had been done from the beginning of the rebellion. Edward Hyde, b. viii.

   The relations considering that a trial would rip up old sores, and discover things not so much to the reputation of the deceased, they dropt their design. Arbuthnot.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. rip

   Rest in peace (R.I.P.), a phrase from the Latin requiescat in pace (Ecclesiastical Latin: [rekwiˈeskat in ˈpatʃe]), is sometimes used in traditional Christian services and prayers, such as in the Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican, and Methodist denominations, to wish the soul of a decedent eternal rest and peace. It became ubiquitous on headstones in the 18th century, and is widely used today when mentioning someone's death.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. rip

   1) To tear or cut something quickly or forcefully. 2) In computing, to copy files or data from one source, such as CDs or DVDs, to a computer system or hard drive. 3) An abbreviation for 'Rest in Peace' which is commonly used as a respectful or sympathetic expression to someone who has died. 4) In surfing, to ride the waves skilfully. 5) In audio or video, it refers to the act of converting data into a particular format.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Ripnoun

   a wicker fish basket

2. Ripverb

   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

3. Ripverb

   to get by, or as by, cutting or tearing

4. Ripverb

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

5. Ripverb

   to saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber

6. Ripnoun

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

7. Ripnoun

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

8. Ripnoun

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

9. Etymology: [Perh. a corruption of the first syllable of reprobate.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Rip

   rip, v.t. to divide by cutting or tearing: to cut open: to take out by cutting or tearing: to tear up for search or alteration: to explode, give vent to.—v.i. to break out violently.—v.t. to utter violently (with out):—pr.p. rip′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. ripped.—n. a tear: a rent: a place torn: (slang) a vicious person: a worthless horse: a ripple. [Scand., Norw. ripa, to scratch; Ice. rífa, to rive.]

2. Rip

   rip, n. (Scot.) a handful of grain not thrashed.

The New Hacker's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. rip

   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.

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. rip

   A pannier or basket used for carrying fish.--To rip, to strip off a ship's planks.

Rap DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ripverb

   Old street slang - to steal, stolen, to take agressively.

2. ripverb

   to fu** - "man we ripped that girl at the party".

3. ripacronym

   Rest in peace

4. ripacronym

   as seen on Eminem's body, rot in pieces

Suggested ResourcesRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. RIP

   What does RIP stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the RIP acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Etymology and OriginsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Rip

   A corruption of “Rep.” See “Old Rep.”

Matched Categories

1. • Attack
   • Cut
   • Libertine
   • Tear
   • Turbulence

British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'RIP' in Verbs Frequency: #975

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Anagrams for RIP »

1. PRI

2. pir

How to pronounce RIP?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say RIP in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of RIP in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of RIP in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of RIP in a Sentence

1. David Letterman:

   When our announcer of 15 years Bill Wendell retired, producer Robert Morton came to my office with an audio tape containing auditions for several announcers, alan's was the first and only voice we listened to. We knew Alan Kalter RIP would be our choice. Whatever else, we always had the best announcer in television. Wonderful voice and eagerness to play a goofy character of himself. Did I mention he could sing ? Yes he could. He enthusiastically did it all.

2. Anthony Fauci:

   I don't think with any moral conscience you could say,' Why don't we just let it rip and happen and let X percent of the people die,'.

3. Donald Trump:

   If you go with what Hillary is saying, in the ninth month, you can take the baby and rip the baby out of the womb of the mother just prior to the birth of a baby.

4. Joe Langley:

   I went for a swim, got caught in a rip, decided the rip was going to take me and finished up on the rocks, in clawing my way over the rocks, the ring pulled off my finger.

5. Mark Krikorian:

   It's not as though [Wolf] is going to go down and rip up the fence and let people swarm in, he isn't going to have a fire in his belly for carrying out the president's agenda.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=RIP
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rip
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=RIP
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rip
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/RIP
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=RIP
8. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Rip
9. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=RIP
10. ^ Etymology and Origins
    https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/54657/pg54657-images.html#:~:text=RIP
11. ^ Usage in printed sources
    https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=RIP