Rip

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1. Noun

A wicker fish basket.

2. Verb

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.

3. Verb

To get by, or as by, cutting or tearing.

4. Verb

To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; -- usually with up.

5. Verb

To saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber.

6. Noun

A rent made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn; laceration.

7. Noun

A term applied to a mean, worthless thing or person, as to a scamp, a debauchee, or a prostitute, or a worn-out horse.

8. Noun

A body of water made rough by the meeting of opposing tides or currents.
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