To separate or divide the parts of by cutting or tearing; tear or cut open or off; split: as, to rip open a sack; to rip off the shingles of a roof; to rip up the belly; especially, to undo (a seam, as of a garment), either by cutting the threads of it or by pulling the two pieces of material apart, so that the sewing-thread is drawn out or broken.To drag or force out or away, as by cutting or rending.Figuratively, to open or reopen for search or disclosure; lay bare; search out and disclose: usually with up. See ripe.To saw (wood) in the direction of the grain. See rip-saw.To rob; pillage; plunder.Synonyms Tear, Cleave, etc. See rend.To be torn or split open; open or part: as, a seam rips by the breaking or drawing out of the threads; the ripping of a boiler at the seams.To rush or drive headlong or with violence. [Colloq.]n. A rent made by ripping or tearing; a laceration; the place so ripped.n. A rip-saw.n. A wicker basket in which to carry fish.To break forth with violence; explode: with out.To utter with sudden violence; give vent to, as an oath: with out.n. A vicious, reckless, and worthless person; a “bad lot”: applied to a man or woman of vicious practices or propensities, and more or less worn by dissipation.n. A worthless or vicious animal, as a horse or a mule.A dialectal form of reap. Halliwell.n. A handful of grain not thrashed.n. A ridge of water; a rapid.n. A little wave; a ripple; especially, in the plural, ripples or waves formed over a bar or ledge, as when the wind and tide are opposed.n. An implement for sharpening a scythe. Compare rifle.