The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Rip \Rip\, n. [Cf. Icel. hrip a box or basket; perhaps akin to
   E. corb. Cf. Ripier.]
   A wicker fish basket.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Rip \Rip\, n.
   1. A rent made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear;
      a place torn; laceration.
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   2. [Perh. a corruption of the first syllable of reprobate.] A
      term applied to a mean, worthless thing or person, as to a
      scamp, a debauchee, or a prostitute, or a worn-out horse.
      [Slang.]
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   3. A body of water made rough by the meeting of opposing
      tides or currents.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Rip \Rip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ripped; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Ripping.] [Cf. AS. r[=y]pan, also Sw. repa to ripple flax,
   D. repelen, G. reffen, riffeln, and E. raff, raffle. Cf.
   Raff, Ripple of flax.]
   1. 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.
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   2. To get by, or as by, cutting or tearing.
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            He 'll rip the fatal secret from her heart.
                                                  --Granville.
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   3. To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to
      search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; -- usually
      with up.
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            They ripped up all that had been done from the
            beginning of the rebellion.           --Clarendon.
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            For brethern to debate and rip up their falling out
            in the ear of a common enemy . . . is neither wise
            nor comely.                           --Milton.
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   4. To saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber.
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   Ripping chisel (Carp.), a crooked chisel for cleaning out
      mortises. --Knight.

   Ripping iron. (Shipbuilding) Same as Ravehook.

   Ripping saw. (Carp.) See Ripsaw.

   To rip out, to rap out, to utter hastily and violently; as,
      to rip out an oath. [Colloq.] See To rap out, under
      Rap, v. t.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

rip
    n 1: a dissolute man in fashionable society [syn: rake,
         rakehell, profligate, rip, blood, roue]
    2: an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart; "there was a
       rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings" [syn:
       rip, rent, snag, split, tear]
    3: a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by
       one current flowing into or across another current [syn:
       rip, riptide, tide rip, crosscurrent,
       countercurrent]
    4: the act of rending or ripping or splitting something; "he
       gave the envelope a vigorous rip" [syn: rent, rip,
       split]
    v 1: tear or be torn violently; "The curtain ripped from top to
         bottom"; "pull the cooked chicken into strips" [syn:
         rend, rip, rive, pull]
    2: move precipitously or violently; "The tornado ripped along
       the coast"
    3: cut (wood) along the grain
    4: criticize or abuse strongly and violently; "The candidate
       ripped into his opponent mercilessly"

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):

RIP

   1.  Routing Information Protocol.

   2.  Raster Image Processor.

   (2003-09-10)


The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):

rip
ripper

    (From "rip off" - to steal) To copy
   audio or video, typically from a compact disc or DVD, to a
   file on a computer hard disk.  A dedicated program to do
   this is called a "ripper" though it is often a function of
   player software.

   Ripping usually includes converting the data to a format that
   is more suitable for computer playback, e.g. MP3 digital
   audio or DivX video.  The process is entirely digital so it
   is possible to make a perfect copy of the data.  However the
   resulting files are large (a few megabytes for an audio
   track, a few gigabytes for a film) so the conversion often
   includes compression to reduce the file size at the cost of
   some loss of quality.

   While it may be legal to do this for personal use,
   distributing a ripped copyright work to others could result in
   prosecution.

   See also ripcording.

   (2008-01-21)


The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):

rip
 v.

    1. To extract the digital representation of a piece of music from an audio
    CD. Software that does this is often called a “CD ripper”.

    2. [Amiga hackers] To extract sound or graphics from a program that they
    have been compiled/assembled into, or which generates them at run-time. In
    the case of older Amiga games this entails searching through memory shortly
    after a reboot. This sense has been in use for many years and probably gave
    rise to the (now more common) sense 1.


The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):

R.I.P.  A careless abbreviation of _requiescat in pace_, attesting to
indolent goodwill to the dead.  According to the learned Dr. Drigge,
however, the letters originally meant nothing more than _reductus in
pulvis_.