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rip

When you rip something, you tear it quickly or forcefully. It's almost always better to rip off a Band-Aid than to peel it off slowly.

You can rip a piece of paper in half, or rip a hole in the roof of your tent. When you tear, split, or pull something apart, you rip it. You can also rip figuratively — like when your move to a new city rips you apart from your best friend. A rip off is a bad deal or a swindle, a phrase that's been popular since about 1970, although rip meaning "steal" was used as prison slang much earlier.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: rip

1
 vn
tear or be torn violently
an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
2
 n
a dissolute man in fashionable society
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: rip
1

v tear or be torn violently

“The curtain ripped from top to bottom”
Synonyms:
pull, rend, rive
Type of:
bust, rupture, snap, tear
separate or cause to separate abruptly

v cut (wood) along the grain

Type of:
cut
separate with or as if with an instrument

v move precipitously or violently

“The tornado ripped along the coast”
Type of:
buck, charge, shoot, shoot down, tear
move quickly and violently

v criticize or abuse strongly and violently

“The candidate ripped into his opponent mercilessly”
Type of:
assail, assault, attack, lash out, round, snipe
attack in speech or writing

n an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart

“there was a rip in his pants”
Synonyms:
rent, snag, split, tear
Type of:
gap, opening
an open or empty space in or between things

n the act of rending or ripping or splitting something

“he gave the envelope a vigorous rip”
Synonyms:
rent, split
Type of:
tear
the act of tearing

n a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current

Synonyms:
countercurrent, crosscurrent, riptide, tide rip
Type of:
turbulence, turbulency
unstable flow of a liquid or gas
2

n a dissolute man in fashionable society

Synonyms:
blood, profligate, rake, rakehell, roue
Type of:
debauchee, libertine, rounder
a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained
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