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rip

1. n. a drinking bout. (see also tear.) Fred had another rip last night. He’s rotten now.

2. n. the loot from a rip-off. Give him some of the rip and tell him to beat it.

3. n. a theft; a rip-off. The crooks pulled a rip on Fourth Street last night.

4. n. a tear in the flesh of the hand, as in an athletic event where the flesh comes in contact with solid material, such as in gymnastics and weightlifting. I keep getting rips from the bar.

See:

• a rip-off
• don’t give a rip
• Let her rip!
• let it rip
• let one rip
• let rip
• rip
• rip (someone or something) to shreds
• rip apart
• rip away
• rip down
• rip in half
• rip into
• rip off
• rip on
• rip on someone
• rip out of
• rip snorter
• rip someone off
• rip something off
• rip to
• rip up
• rip-off
• rip-off artist
• rip-off merchant
• rip-roaring
• rip-snorting mad