Usually means: Tear or cut something quickly.
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General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. RIP, rip: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. RIP, RIP, rip, rip, rip: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. RIP, rip, rip, rip: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rip: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rip: Vocabulary.com
  6. Rip, rip: Wordnik
  7. RIP, rip: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. RIP, rip: Wiktionary
  9. R.I.P, rip: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. R.I.P, rip: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. rip: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. R.I.P, RIP: Dictionary.com
  13. rip (n1.), rip (n2.), rip (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. rip: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. R.I.P, R.I.P. (Actress album), R.I.P. (Coroner album), R.I.P. (Murder City Devils album), R.I.P. (Recording In Progress), R.I.P. (Rita Ora song), R.I.P. (Rock in Peace), R.I.P. (Rocket from the Crypt album), R.I.P. (The Zombies album), R.I.P. (Young Jeezy song), RIP (Rita Ora song), RIP (band), RIP (disambiguation), RIP (punk band), RIP, RIP, Rip (disambiguation), Rip (dog), Rip, The Rip (song), The Rip: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Rip: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. rip: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. rip: Rhymezone
  19. rip: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. rip: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. R.I.P: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. RIP: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. R.I.P, Rip, Rip: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. rip: Free Dictionary
  25. rip: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. rip: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  27. RIP: Dictionary/thesaurus
  28. rip: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. RIP: Glossary of Binary Graphics
  2. rip-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. rip: Legal dictionary

Computing (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. rip: Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary
  2. RIP, rip: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  3. rip: Netlingo
  4. RIP: CCI Computer
  5. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  6. RIP (Routing Information Protocol): Linktionary Networking Glossary
  7. rip: Hacking Lexicon
  8. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Rip (CD), rip: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. RIP: UK Medical Acronyms
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. RIP: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ka-BOOM! Comicbook Words on Historical Principles (No longer online)
  2. RIP, RIP, RIP: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  3. RIP: Acronym Finder
  4. RIP: Three Letter Words with definitions
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. rip: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. RIP: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. rip, rip, rip: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. Rip: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. R.I.P, r.i.p: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rip: Sports Definitions

Tech (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. rip: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. RIP: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  3. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  5. rip: Coin Collecting
  6. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  7. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  8. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To divide or separate the parts of (especially something flimsy, such as paper or fabric), by cutting or tearing; to tear off or out by violence.
verb:  (intransitive) To tear apart; to rapidly become two parts.
verb:  (transitive) To get by, or as if by, cutting or tearing.
verb:  (intransitive, figurative) To move quickly and destructively.
verb:  (woodworking) To cut wood along (parallel to) the grain.
verb:  (transitive, slang, computing) To copy data from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc., to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
verb:  (slang, narcotics) To take a "hit" of marijuana; (by extension) to take a dose of any drug or alcohol.
verb:  (slang) To fart audibly.
verb:  (transitive, sometimes US, slang) To mock or criticize (someone or something). (often used with on and into)
verb:  (transitive, slang, chiefly demoscene) To steal; to rip off.
verb:  To move or act fast; to rush headlong.
verb:  (archaic) To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; usually with up.
verb:  (intransitive, surfing, slang) To surf extremely well.
noun:  A tear (in paper, etc.).
noun:  A type of strong, rough tide or current.
noun:  (Australia, New Zealand) A rip current: a strong outflow of surface water, away from the shore, that returns water from incoming waves.
noun:  (slang) A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action.
noun:  (slang) A hit (dose) of marijuana.
noun:  (UK, Eton College) A black mark given for substandard schoolwork.
noun:  (slang) Something unfairly expensive, a rip-off.
noun:  (computing, slang) Data or audio copied from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
noun:  (slang) A fart.
noun:  (demoscene, slang) Something ripped off or stolen; a work resulting from plagiarism.
noun:  (music, informal) A kind of glissando leading up to the main note to be played.
noun:  (Canada, slang) A joyride.
noun:  A wicker basket for fish.
noun:  (colloquial, regional, dated) A worthless horse; a nag.
noun:  (colloquial, regional, dated) An immoral man; a rake, a scoundrel.
noun:  (Scotland) A handful of unthreshed grain.
noun:  Routing information protocol, a dynamic routing protocol used in local and wide area networks.
noun:  (molecular biology) Repeat-induced point mutation, a process by which both copies of duplicated sequences are mutated.
noun:  A male given name from Dutch
noun:  Ellipsis of ripsaw (“saw for cutting wood along its grain”).. [(woodworking) A saw that is designed to cut wood along its grain, i.e. to rip, to execute a rip cut.]
noun:  (US, law enforcement) Initialism of reduction in pay.
noun:  (biology) Initialism of ribosome-inactivating protein.

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