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rip English

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Definitions in simple English

rip

An act of tearing something. In anger, I ripped the page and threw it in his face.

rip

(= pull) tear or be torn violently The curtain ripped from top to bottom pull the cooked chicken into strips cut (wood) along the grain move precipitously or violently The tornado ripped along the coast criticize or abuse strongly and violently The candidate ripped into his opponent mercilessly (= snag) an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart there was a rip in his pants she had snags in her stockings a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current (= rent, split) the act of rending or ripping or splitting something he gave the envelope a vigorous rip (= rake) a dissolute man in fashionable society

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rip · verb

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Simple sentences

What! This T-shirt is 3,000 yen? This is a rip-off!
Don't rip me off!
I can rip you apart with my bare hands.
I'll rip your head off!
She'll rip my head off.
He'll rip my head off.
I'll rip your fucking balls off if you ever as much as look her way.
The powerful rip current carried Tom far away from the shore.
Tom thought the used car salesman was trying to rip him off.
I'm going to rip up this piece of paper.
Oi you, that's too much of a rip off by anyone's count! 6:4 is more than enough. Of course I'm the '6'.
I could rip you apart with my bare hands.
If that happens, I will rip up and burn everything I have written.
Rip your scribble into a thousand shreds!
I didn't rip you off.

Movie subtitles

It was strong enough to rip it off-- rip the, like, rip its bone in half.
I'll probably let one rip, too, 'cause.
Hey, someone's trying to let it rip here.
Nice rip, Cam.
Hey, you mind feeding Rip for me while I'm gone?
Blackmailers., wanted to rip more money.
We will eviscerate you. With our teeth we will rip your hearts off.
Give me my skirt before you rip it.
And if provoked, can and will. rip the guts out of each and every living being here tonight.
Rip up that car of his.
What'd they rip his car up for unless it was to find ransom dough?
He'd just as soon rip you wide open as not.
Teeth that can bite. Claws that can rip.
That can't be. That's impossible. Rip up that car of his.
You can't rip it out of the week.
There comes a time in everybody's life when he's got to get up and let it rip!
For 48 hours, I have tried to rip fun out of this place.
Aye-yippety-aye. Ain't that a leather-headed old rip?
You should've seen that little laddie charge that lion just as he was to rip me to ribbons.
Rip it down the front. It'll be easier to get off.
If you got any of them rabbeted lintels set, rip them up!
First, the carpenters had to rip out the flooring.
He looks like he'll rip you apart, but he's cooler than you'd think.
Cut me throat, rip me liver, if I'm tellin' a lie.
If you don't score in the first five minutes I'll rip out your gut and wrap it around your neck!
Or I will rip her apart.
Something rip?
I'll rip out your tongue!
A rip?
He was a cutpurse whose knife could rip a pocket most profitably, 'til one day his knife had gone a little deeper and Emile was sent to jail a little longer than usual.
The reefs will rip out the bottom of the boat!
Rip out the phones, smash up the furniture!

News and current affairs

If this economic bond disappears, national interests will reassert themselves and rip the project apart.
Bureaucracies, Shleifer concludes, impose hurdles mostly to set themselves up for rip-offs, bribes or safe, comfortable jobs.
In the 1980s, President Reagan believed that America was losing its entrepreneurial edge, and that Japan and Europe were overtaking it, so he let the deficit rip.
Four large countries and several small ones had to be brought into nominal convergence to ensure that the anchor of a common currency did not rip their economies apart.
From the left, the emphasis has been on the megabanks' abuse of power and the great rip-off of the middle class.
Far from pushing through structural reforms, they let domestic wages and costs rip, reducing their competitiveness relative to Europe's better-run economies.
Brown, who became prime minister in 2007, let spending and borrowing rip, so that when the global crash hit Britain was already suffering from a structural fiscal deficit and a credit bubble.