Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that rips.
- n. One who commits murder with a knife or similar sharp object.
- n. Slang One that is an excellent example of its kind.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which rips, tears, or cuts open; a ripping-tool. A tool used in shaping roofing-slates.
- n. A very efficient person or thing; one who does great execution: as, he is a regular ripper.
- n. A robber. Halliwell (in the form ripier). See rip, transitive verb, 5.
- n. One who brings fish inland from the coast to market.
- n. A fog-horn. Also called lipper.
- n. A rip-saw.
- n. A double-ripper.
Wiktionary
- n. Something that rips (something else).
- n. Someone who rips (something).
- n. A legislative bill or act that transfers powers of appointment from the usual holders to a chief executive or a board of officials.
- n. A murderer who kills and often mutilates victims with a blade or similar sharp weapon.
- n. mining A hook-like tool used to tear away ore, rock, etc.
- n. UK, slang Something that is an excellent example of its kind.
- n. computing Software that extracts content from files or storage media.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who, or that which, rips; a ripping tool.
- n. A tool for trimming the edges of roofing slates.
- n. Slang. Anything huge, extreme, startling, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife
Etymologies
- From rip + -er, originated 1605 – 15. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Operation arrowhead ripper is consistent with what Sir Robert thompson termed the four stages of clearing, holding, winning and won.”
“The second goal came on a 30-foot ripper from the right wing circle that screamed past Roy, and the final goal was a rebound goal that was lifted high into the net.”
USATODAY.com - McCarty hat trick drives Wings to victory in opener
“The problem I'm having is that the built-in subtitle ripper doesn't get the times right on some movies.”
“Rash of murders has England fearing another 'ripper' - Los Angeles Times: Rash of murders has England fearing another 'ripper”
“Hollywood in showdown over DVD 'ripper' - Hollywood calls it "rent, rip and return" and contends it's one of the biggest technological threats to the movie industry's ...”
“Hollywood in showdown over DVD 'ripper' - AP - Hollywood calls it "rent, rip and return" and contends it's one of the biggest technological threats to the movie industry's annual $20 billion DVD market � software that allows you to copy a film without paying for it.”
“Hollywood in showdown over DVD 'ripper' - Hollywood calls it "rent, rip and return" and contends it's one of the biggest technological threats to the movie industry's annual $20 billion DVD market - software that allows you to copy a film without paying for it.”
“I use the awl as a kind of crude seam ripper, which is what I think it was intended to be.”
“What are we to do if the ripper is my antithesis?" asked the man in the yellow suit.”
“The plasma cutter is a tool, the line gun is a tool, the ripper is a tool, etc.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ripper’.
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PECH - fishing technology
berth, anchor, drop anchor, anchored floating..., artificial restoc..., bait, beam trawls, bottom gillnets, entangling nets, bottom nets, bottom-set nets, bottom pair trawl and 478 more...
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bootload's Words
grouse, beaut, ripper, gassit, hack, hacking, twit, spon, goon, rosella, magpie, galah and 184 more...
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huck finnian
ain't, stretchers, without, sivilize, hogshead, victuals, bulrushers, tolerable, goggles, middling, reckoned, who-whooing and 287 more...
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Beyond Fair To Middling
words or expressions which, when used with and in the sense of "it's _____" or "it's a _____" mean simply good. Or better :-)
balltearer, beauty, ripper, all good, going swimmingly, snorter, ripsnorter, cracker, belter, corker, jaffa, nifty and 44 more...
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Tweets
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djp72 this word is a positive exclaimation: "good one" - it can be used for a person, place, thing, event, anything. as in "you little ripper!" or "the party was a ripper" Dec 10, 2006