Verb

(ripp)

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.

to rip''' a garment; to '''rip up a floor

*

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=Foreword citation , passage=A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.}}

To tear apart; to rapidly become two parts.

My shirt ripped when it caught on a bramble.

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

* Granville

He'll rip the fatal secret from her heart.

(figurative) To move quickly and destructively.

* 2007 , Roger Baker, Emotional Processing (page 136)

On 18 November 1987 a horrific flash fire ripped through the escalators and ticket hall of King's Cross tube station, killing thirty people.

(woodworking) To cut wood along (parallel to) the grain. Contrast crosscut.

(transitive, slang, computing) To copy data from CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable device, etc.

(slang, narcotics) To take a "hit" of marijuana.

(slang) To fart.

(US, slang) To mock or criticize.

(transitive, slang, chiefly, demoscene) To steal; to rip off.

* 2001 , "rex deathstar", Opensource on demoscene'' (discussion on Internet newsgroup ''comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos )

opensource is a double-edged sword. while you have a chance of people using and improving on the code, you will also have the chance of lamers ripping it.

* 2002 , "Ray Norrish", Barbarian demo circa 1988?'' (on newsgroup ''alt.emulators.amiga )

To move or act fast, to rush headlong.

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

* Clarendon

They ripped up all that had been done from the beginning of the rebellion.

* Milton

For brethren to debate and rip up their falling out in the ear of a common enemy is neither wise nor comely.

Verb

(rapp)

To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.

* 1845 , (Edgar Allan Poe), "":

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, ¶ Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, ¶ While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, ¶ As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. ¶ "'Tis some visitor", I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — ¶ Only this, and nothing more."

* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter II,

He walked softly up the sanded path, tiptoed up the steps and across the piazza, and rapped' at the front door, not too loudly, lest this too might attract the attention of the man across the street. There was no response to his rap. He put his ear to the door and heard voices within, and the muffled sound of footsteps. After a moment he ' rapped again, a little louder than before.

(dated) To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.

* Prior

With one great peal they rap the door.

(metalworking) To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.

(ambitransitive) To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.

''He started to rap after listening to the Beastie Boys

He rapped a song to his girlfriend.

* {{quote-news

, year=2012 , date=April 19 , author=Josh Halliday , title=Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised? , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=But the purported rise in violent videos online has led some MPs to campaign for courts to have more power to remove or block material on YouTube. The Labour MP Heidi Alexander said she was appalled after a constituent was robbed at knifepoint, and the attackers could be found brandishing weapons and rapping about gang violence online.}}

(informal) To talk casually.