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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Rip \Rip\, n. [Cf. Icel. hrip a box or basket; perhaps akin to E. corb. Cf. {Ripier}.] A wicker fish basket. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Rip \Rip\, n. 1. A rent made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn; laceration. [1913 Webster] 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.] [1913 Webster] 3. A body of water made rough by the meeting of opposing tides or currents. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] 2. To get by, or as by, cutting or tearing. [1913 Webster] He 'll rip the fatal secret from her heart. --Granville. [1913 Webster] 3. To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; -- usually with up. [1913 Webster] They ripped up all that had been done from the beginning of the rebellion. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster] For brethern to debate and rip up their falling out in the ear of a common enemy . . . is neither wise nor comely. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 4. To saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber. [1913 Webster] {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. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: 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" From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]: 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. From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2013) [vera]: RIP Remote Imaging Protocol (BBS) From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2013) [vera]: RIP Raster Image Processor (DTP) From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2013) [vera]: RIP Return Instruction Pointer (CPU, RAM) From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2013) [vera]: RIP Routing Information Protocol (BSD, IGP, RFC 1721, IP)