Rip

·noun A wicker fish basket.

II. Rip ·vt To get by, or as by, cutting or tearing.

III. Rip ·vt To saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber.

IV. Rip ·noun A body of water made rough by the meeting of opposing tides or currents.

V. Rip ·noun A rent made by ripping, ·esp. by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn; laceration.

VI. Rip ·noun A term applied to a mean, worthless thing or person, as to a scamp, a debauchee, or a prostitute, or a worn-out horse.

VII. Rip ·vt To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to Discover; to Disclose;

— usually with up.

VIII. Rip ·vt 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.