rip

verb15

1. •
   to tear something such as paper or material quickly and with force, or pull it off roughly
2. •
   To tear apart; to rapidly become two parts.

   • My shirt ripped when it was caught on a bramble.
3. •
   To remove violently or wrongly.

   • A child untimely ripped from its parents' arms.
4. •
   To get by, or as if by, cutting or tearing.

   • He'll rip the fatal secret from her heart. — 1726
5. •
   To cut wood along (parallel to) the grain.
6. •
   To move or act fast; to rush headlong.
7. •
   (figurative) To move quickly and destructively.

   • The tornado ripped through northern Nebraska.
8. •
   (slang) To copy data from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc., to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
9. •
   (slang) To steal; to rip off.

   • 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. — 2001
10. •
    (US, slang) To mock or criticize (someone or something). (often used with on and into)

    • He spent the entire forty-five-minute ride home ripping on me: my makeup, my hair, my clothing, my “gear bag” (his cowboy slang for my purse). — 2011
11. •
    (slang) To surf extremely well.
12. •
    (slang) To be very good; rock
13. •
    (slang) To take a hit, dose or shot of a drug (such as marijuana) or alcohol.

    • He spent the day ripping shots at the bar and ripping blunts at home.
14. •
    (slang) To fart audibly.
15. •
    (no longer used) To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; usually with up.

    • They ripped up all that had been done from the beginning of the rebellion. — 1702

noun18

1. •
   A tear (in paper, etc.).
2. •
   A type of strong, rough tide or current.
3. •
   (Australia, New-Zealand) A rip current: a strong outflow of surface water, away from the shore, that returns water from incoming waves.
4. •
   [in the plural] A tract of broken water (in a river or stream), particularly one which is not as rough as rapids.
5. •
   (slang) Data or audio copied from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable device, etc.

   • Some of these CD rips don't sound very good: what bitrate did you use?
6. •
   (Internet, slang) Ellipsis of high quality rip.
7. •
   (slang) Something unfairly expensive, a rip-off.
8. •
   (slang) A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action.
9. •
   (slang) Something ripped off or stolen; a work resulting from plagiarism.

   • Scans and rips sucks, ofcourse^([sic]). But a graphician, redrawing a picture does make him less good. A pixeled image should be judged by the skills and originality in the picture, not by the motive. — 2000
10. •
    Ellipsis of ripsaw (“saw for cutting wood along its grain”).
11. •
    (slang) A hit (dose) of marijuana.
12. •
    (slang) A fart.
13. •
    (Canada, slang) A joyride.

    • Camp at Kakwa Wildland Park staging area to hit the trails at first light or take a short drive from the city and go for a rip at the Big Mountain area. — 2015
14. •
    (informal) A kind of glissando leading up to the main note to be played.
15. •
    (UK) A black mark given for substandard schoolwork.
16. •
    (informal, old-fashioned) An immoral man; a rake, a scoundrel.

    • "Bad luck to yer, ye ould rip," sez he, "what a purty thrick yuv played me, to bring me here;" an' he still wint an yellin', and the farther they got an the bridge, the loudher he yelled[.] — 1850
17. •
    (informal, old-fashioned) A worthless horse; a nag.
18. •
    (Scotland) A handful of unthreshed grain.

exclamation6

1. •
   (informal) Expressing disappointment at the fact that someone or something has come to an end or gone away.

   • RIP Vine. Only real ones remember.
2. •
   a short form of "rest in peace", a wish that someone who has died is at peace

   • RIP, Pope Francis.
3. •
   (slang) a word that shows a little disappointment at bad news by speaking of it as if something had died

   • I applied to dozens of companies and didn't get a single job offer, RIP.
4. •
   (slang, humorous) an expression of pity for someone or something that is having or is about to have a bad time

   • That jumpscare is so loud! RIP headphone users.
   • RIP your DMs.
5. •
   (rare) Initialism of rest in power.
6. •
   (offensive) Initialism of rest in piss.

noun2

1. •
   (US) Initialism of reduction in pay.

   • […] recommended as punishment a 55-day RIP (reduction in pay) but was overruled by higher authorities […] — 1972
2. •
   Initialism of ribosome-inactivating protein.

noun1

1. •
   Repeat-induced point mutation, a process by which both copies of duplicated sequences are mutated.

   • To investigate the impact of RIP on protein families in Neurospora, genes were clustered into ‘multigene families’ on the basis of an all versus all comparison of protein sequences (see Methods). — 2003