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rip
noun- a current travelling seawards from shore, usually moving swiftly US
An abbreviation of “rip tide” or “rip current”. - He bitched about missing some rad tubes and said that old dorks shouldn’t be anywhere near a rip, even a baby rip. — Joseph Wambaugh, The Golden Orange, p. 33, 1990
- a method of breaking into a safe that employs mechanical force and no explosives US
- — Hyman E. Goldin et al., Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, p. 179, 1950
- in a cheating scheme in a dice game, the switching of tampered dice into a game US
- — Frank Garcia, Marked Cards and Loaded Dice, p. 263, 1962
- an injustice; an action that is fundamentally unfair US, 1982
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 7, Spring 1982
- a complaint lodged against a police officer US
- — New York Times, 15 February 1970
- a fine or punishment imposed for breaking a police department conduct rule US
- I got a five-day rip (fined five days’ pay). — New York Times Magazine, p. 88, 16 March 1958
- one pound sterling UK
- [A]nything more than a hundred rips’d have to have Keva’s counter signature[.] — Kevin Sampson, Powder, p. 37, 1999
- marijuana UK
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 289, 2003
- a coarse, unattractive woman IRELAND, 1910
- I’m half in love with aul’ rip–I am. — Kevin Sampson, Clubland, p. 95, 2002
- a swindle, deception, or theft US
An abbreviation of RIP-OFF. - “Not long afterwards a Purolator truck gets hit, but the robbers turn up dead three days later–without the loot. Classic mob rip.” — Carl Hiaasen, Skin Tight, p. 21, 1989
- a robbery US
- “Clanton lived right there. In our eyes, there was no way he was going to do a rip,” Kelly says. — Newsday (New York), p. A2, 26 March 2007
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