rip

A rip (current)

Meanings

A tear (in paper, etc.).
A type of tide or current.
A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action.
A hit (dose) of marijuana.
A black mark given for substandard schoolwork.
Something unfairly expensive, a rip-off.
Data or audio copied from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
Something ripped off or stolen; plagiarism.
A kind of glissando leading up to the main note to be played.
A wicker basket for fish.
A worthless horse; a nag.
An immoral man; a rake, a scoundrel.
A handful of unthreshed grain.

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 tear apart; to rapidly become two parts.
To get by, or as if by, cutting or tearing.
To move quickly and destructively.
To cut wood along (parallel to) the grain.
To copy data from CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
To take a "hit" of marijuana.
To fart.
To mock or criticize (someone or something). (often used with on)
To steal; to rip off.
To move or act fast, to rush headlong.
To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; usually with up.
To surf extremely well.

From Middle English rippen, from earlier ryppen, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rupjaną, *ruppōną (compare West Frisian rippe, ripje, roppe, ropje, Dutch dialectal rippen, Low German ruppen, German Low German röpen, German rupfen), intensive of *raupijaną (compare Old English rīpan, rīepan ‘to plunder’, West Frisian rippe ‘to rip, tear’, German raufen 'to rip'), causative of Proto-Indo-European *roub- ~ reub- (compare Albanian rrabe ‘maquis’, possibly Latin rubus ‘bramble’), variant of *reup- ‘to break’. More at reave, rob.
Compare Icelandic hrip, a box or basket; perhaps akin to English corb. Compare ripier.
Origin uncertain; perhaps a variant of rep.

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