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ripping
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 That rips, or can be removed by ripping. 2 (context dated slang English) excellent. n. 1 Process of copying audio or video content to a hard disk. 2 (cx woodworking English) Wood that has been ripped (cut parallel to the grain). 3 (context AU English) ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree; "the tree split with a great ripping sound"; "heard a rending roar as the crowd surged forward" [syn: rending , splitting ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"cutting," 1714, present participle adjective from rip (v.). Slange meaning "Very fast, rapid" os from 1826, hence further slang development "excellent, splendid" (1846). Related: Rippingly .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Ripping is the stage that people, mainly bodybuilders , go through in order to lose body fat to a very low percentage. The idea is that if one's body fat is low, then muscle tissue will be more visible and therefore a better-looking body will emerge. The ...
Usage examples of ripping.
The agonizing pain would soon be ripping through her womb as her body fought to conceive.
Ripping off his cloak, Alec gathered the hem of it in one hand and tossed the other end at the upthrust corner, hoping to catch it with the hood.
It was all I could do to tear my eyes off Asteria, who sat panting on the ground, ripping at the shreds of the long robe entangling her neck and legs.
Then came an awful ripping sound, as of a body being torn asunder, and he felt the ground quiver beneath him again.
Hunter smashed him across the head with his atlatl, ripping his cheek open.
He could feel the baleen ripping the skin on his back as the tongue covered him, pressing the seawater out around him as it would strain krill, then crushing him until the last of the air exploded from his body and he blacked out.
Leading the beisa by six inches, he vaulted lightly into the back seat and crouched on the floorboards, covering his head with both arms while the beisa battered the sides of the Rolls, driving in one door and ripping the paintwork with the deadly horns.
Mrs Possum bit him savagely and naughty Blinky at once kicked her, scratching and ripping her best hat to shreds.
Just touching him sent an electrifying current of desire ripping through her.
He could hear Harman ripping flesh and chewing in the fungal darkness behind him.
The swivel-gun and the gingall both hit the sandbag immediately opposite, ripping it and covering both him and the table with its contents.
Weak and groggy, she fell forward against the Santa at the steering wheel and tore at his beard, ripping it off to reveal his handsome baby face and his long blond-streaked hair.
As he gunned his vehicle out into the street, the most intense light source was the rope of cyan bolts ripping skyward from the cupola of the leading tank.
I left Jeff and the rest of the ground crew ripping out the insulation from the heli, while Janks and I walked over to the Here.
The sea serpent disemboweled it, ripping open the tough hide and spilling ichthyosaur entrails into the stormy subterranean sea.