Wiktionary
n. (context UK English) An (alternative spelling of riptide English)
Wikipedia
Rip tide or riptide, also known as an ebb jet or tidal jet, is a strong tidal flow of water within estuaries and other enclosed tidal areas. The term "rip tide" or "riptide" is often incorrectly applied to rip currents, which are not tidal flows.
The US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration comments:
"Rip currents are not rip tides. A specific type of current associated with tides may include both the ebb and flood tidal currents that are caused by egress and ingress of the tide through inlets and the mouths of estuaries, embayments, and harbors. These currents may cause drowning deaths, but these tidal currents or tidal jets are separate and distinct phenomena from rip currents. Recommended terms for these phenomena include ebb jet, flood jet, or tidal jet."The term "ebb jet" would be used for a tidal current leaving an enclosed tidal area, and "flood jet" for the equivalent tidal current entering it.
Rip Tide is an original novella written by Louise Cooper and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Eighth Doctor. It was released both as a standard edition hardback and a deluxe edition (ISBN 1-903889-13-8) featuring a frontispiece by Fred Gambino. Both editions have a foreword by Stephen Gallagher.
Usage examples of "rip tide".
Three days later I ran out of air in a rip tide, 90 feet down on Palancar Reef, and I came so close to drowning that they said, later, I was lucky to get off with a serious case of the bends.
She saw him struggling like a drowning man in a rip tide of temptation.
Until at last, his touch tore at her like a rip tide, snatching her from the moorings of sanity and hurtling her through the stars, casting her far away, into the warm waves of rapture.
The glory of the romance caught her like a rip tide and carried her away.
Sisko said, his eyes narrowing, his tone once again as deep and dangerous as an ocean rip tide.