rip

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English [edit]

A rip (current)

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Etymology [edit]

Middle English rippen, from earlier ryppen ‘to pluck’, from Proto-Germanic *ruppōnan (compare West Frisian roppe, ropje, Low German ruppen, German rupfen), intensive of *raupijanan (compare Old English rīpan, rīepan ‘to plunder’, West Frisian rippe ‘to rip, tear’, German raufen 'to rip'),[1] [2] causative of Proto-Indo-European *roub ~ reub- (compare Albanian rrabe ‘maquis’,[3] possibly Latin rubus ‘bramble’), variant of *reup- ‘to break’.[4] More at reave, rob.

Noun [edit]

rip (plural rips)

  1. A tear (in paper, etc.).
  2. A type of tide or current.
    1. (Australia) A strong outflow of surface water, away from the shore, that returns water from incoming waves.
      • 2000, Andrew Short, Beaches of the Queensland Coast: Cooktown to Coolangatta, page 38,
        Rhythmic beaches consist of a rhythmic longshore bar that narrows and deepens when the rip crosses the breaker, and in between broadens, shoals and approaches the shore. It does not, however, reach the shore, with a continuous rip feeder channel feeding the rips to either side of the bar.
      • 2005, Paul Smitz, Australia & New Zealand on a Shoestring, Lonely Planet, page 466,
        Undertows (or ‘rips’) are the main problem. If you find yourself being carried out by a rip, the important thing to do is just keep afloat; don′t panic or try to swim against the rip, which will exhaust you. In most cases the current stops within a couple of hundred metres of the shore and you can then swim parallel to the shore for a short way to get out of the rip and make your way back to land.
      • 2010, Jeff Wilks, Donna Prendergast, Chapter 9: Beach Safety and Millennium Youth: Travellers and Sentinels, Pierre Benckendorff, Gianna Moscardo, Donna Pendergast, Tourism and Generation Y, page 100,
        Given that a large number of all rescues conducted by Surf Life Saving Australia (SLSA) occur in rips (a rip being a relatively narrow, seaward moving stream of water), this is critical surf-safety information (Surf Life Saving Australia, 2005).
  3. (slang) A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action.
  4. (slang) A hit (dose) of marijuana.
  5. (slang, archaic) A mean, worthless thing or person, such as a debauchee or a worn-out horse.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Charles Dickens, Bleak House to this entry?)

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Verb [edit]

rip (third-person singular simple present rips, present participle ripping, simple past and past participle ripped)

  1. (transitive) To cause something, usually paper, to rapidly become two parts.
  2. (intransitive) To tear apart; to rapidly become two parts.
  3. (woodworking) To cut wood along (parallel to) the grain. Contrast crosscut.
  4. (transitive, slang, computing) To copy data from CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
  5. (slang, narcotics) To take a "hit" of marijuana.
  6. (slang) To fart.
  7. (US, slang) To mock or criticize.
  8. (transitive, slang, chiefly demoscene) To steal; to rip off.
    • 2001, "rex deathstar", Opensource on demoscene (discussion on Internet newsgroup comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos)
      opensource is a double-edged sword. while you have a chance of people using and improving on the code, you will also have the chance of lamers ripping it.
    • 2002, "Ray Norrish", Barbarian demo circa 1988? (on newsgroup alt.emulators.amiga)
      […] an old demo by some bods called "kellogs and donovan" which had ripped graphics from the game "Barbarian" […]
  9. To move or act fast, to rush headlong.

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Translations [edit]

to cause to become two parts
to rapidly become two parts
woodworking: to cut wood along the grain
to copy data from optical disks
slang: to take a "hit" of marijuana
to fart — see fart
to mock — see mock
to steal

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References [edit]

  1. ^ Marlies Philippa et al., eds., Etymologisch Woordenboek van het Nederlands, A-Z, s.v. “ruif” (Amsterdam UP, 3 Dec. 2009): <http://www.etymologie.nl>, citing G.G. Kloeke, “Die niederländischen Wörter ruif ‘Raufe’ und luif(el) ‘Schutzdach’”, in Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter 17 (1952), 46-50.
  2. ^ Jan de Vries & F. de Tollenaere, Nederlands Etymologisch Woordenboek, 4th edn., s.v. “rob 3” (Leiden: Brill, 1997), 581.
  3. ^ Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary, s.v. “rrabe” (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 376.
  4. ^ Wolfgang Pfeifer, ed., Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen, s.v. “raufen” (Munich: Deutscher Taschenbucher Vertrag, 2005), 1090.

Lojban [edit]

Rafsi [edit]

rip

  1. rafsi of cripu.

Tok Pisin [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From English reef.

Noun [edit]

rip

  1. Reef.

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