rip

1. n. A wicker fish basket. Source: opted

2. v. t. 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. Source: opted

3. v. t. To get by, or as by, cutting or tearing. Source: opted

4. v. t. To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; -- usually with up. Source: opted

5. v. t. To saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber. Source: opted

6. n. A rent made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn; laceration. Source: opted

7. n. A term applied to a mean, worthless thing or person, as to a scamp, a debauchee, or a prostitute, or a worn-out horse. Source: opted

8. n. A body of water made rough by the meeting of opposing tides or currents. Source: opted

9. n. a dissolute man in fashionable society Source: wordnet

10. n. an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart Source: wordnet

11. n. a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current Source: wordnet

12. n. the act of rending or ripping or splitting something Source: wordnet

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