Rip vs. Gip — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Rip and Gip
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Rip
A stretch of water in a river, estuary, or tidal channel made rough by waves meeting an opposing current.
Gip
Variant of gyp.
Rip
A rip current.
Gip
A servant; a gyp.
Rip
A dissolute person.
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Gip
To take out the entrails of (herrings).
Rip
An old or worthless horse.
Gip
A servant. See Gyp.
Rip
A tear (in paper, etc.).
Rip
A type of strong, rough tide or current.
Rip
(Australia, New Zealand) A rip current: a strong outflow of surface water, away from the shore, that returns water from incoming waves.
Rip
(slang) A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action.
Rip
(slang) A hit (dose) of marijuana.
Rip
A black mark given for substandard schoolwork.
Rip
(slang) Something unfairly expensive, a rip-off.
Rip
Data or audio copied from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
Some of these CD rips don't sound very good: what bitrate did you use?
Rip
Something ripped off or stolen; a work resulting from plagiarism.
Rip
A kind of glissando leading up to the main note to be played.
Rip
Ellipsis of ripsaw.
Rip
A joyride.
Rip
A wicker basket for fish.
Rip
A worthless horse; a nag.
Rip
An immoral man; a rake, a scoundrel.
Rip
(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.
To rip a garment; to rip up a floor
Rip
(intransitive) To tear apart; to rapidly become two parts.
My shirt ripped when it was caught on a bramble.
Rip
(transitive) To get by, or as if by, cutting or tearing.
Rip
To move quickly and destructively.
Rip
(woodworking) To cut wood along (parallel to) the grain.
Rip
To copy data from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc., to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
Rip
To take a "hit" of marijuana.
Rip
(slang) To fart.
Rip
To mock or criticize (someone or something). (often used with on and into)
Rip
To steal; to rip off.
Rip
To move or act fast; to rush headlong.
Rip
(archaic) To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; usually with up.
Rip
To surf extremely well.
Rip
A wicker fish basket.
Rip
A rent made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn; laceration.
Rip
A term applied to a mean, worthless thing or person, as to a scamp, a debauchee, or a prostitute, or a worn-out horse.
Rip
A body of water made rough by the meeting of opposing tides or currents.
Rip
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.
Rip
To get by, or as by, cutting or tearing.
He 'll rip the fatal secret from her heart.
Rip
To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; - usually with up.
They ripped up all that had been done from the beginning of the rebellion.
For brethern to debate and rip up their falling out in the ear of a common enemy . . . is neither wise nor comely.
Rip
To saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber.
Rip
A dissolute man in fashionable society
Rip
An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart;
There was a rip in his pants
She had snags in her stockings
Rip
A stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current
Rip
The act of rending or ripping or splitting something;
He gave the envelope a vigorous rip
Rip
Tear or be torn violently;
The curtain ripped from top to bottom
Pull the cooked chicken into strips
Rip
Move precipitously or violently;
The tornado ripped along the coast
Rip
Cut (wood) along the grain
Rip
Criticize or abuse strongly and violently;
The candidate ripped into his opponent mercilessly
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