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  • noun Plural form of ripper.

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Examples

  • The industry feared an adverse ruling would legitimize so-called "rippers" - software that allows users to "rent, rip and return" movies instead of buying them, thus cutting into Hollywood's annual $20-billion DVD sales market.

    The Globe and Mail - Technology RSS feed 2009

  • In spite of eating up most of the kitchen space, the standard bar menu's studded with adventurous booze-sponges, including bacon, egg, and cheese sliders; cheese/gravy -/bacon-smothered tots; pulled-pork-stuffed burgers; and deep fried dogs, aka rippers, which don't need jack to tear your heart out.

    Thrillist: The 13th Step: A Rehab'd Joint In The EVill Thrillist 2010

  • In spite of eating up most of the kitchen space, the standard bar menu's studded with adventurous booze-sponges, including bacon, egg, and cheese sliders; cheese/gravy -/bacon-smothered tots; pulled-pork-stuffed burgers; and deep fried dogs, aka rippers, which don't need jack to tear your heart out.

    Thrillist: The 13th Step: A Rehab'd Joint In The EVill Thrillist 2010

  • In spite of eating up most of the kitchen space, the standard bar menu's studded with adventurous booze-sponges, including bacon, egg, and cheese sliders; cheese/gravy -/bacon-smothered tots; pulled-pork-stuffed burgers; and deep fried dogs, aka rippers, which don't need jack to tear your heart out.

    Thrillist: The 13th Step: A Rehab'd Joint In The EVill Thrillist 2010

  • In spite of eating up most of the kitchen space, the standard bar menu's studded with adventurous booze-sponges, including bacon, egg, and cheese sliders; cheese/gravy-/bacon-smothered tots; pulled-pork-stuffed burgers; and deep fried dogs, aka rippers, which don't need jack to tear your heart out.

    Thrillist: The 13th Step: A Rehab'd Joint In The EVill Thrillist 2010

  • Other-dimensional beings known as "rippers" are stealing people from our world.

    REVIEW: Interzone #225 2009

  • Its premise is that scientists invent "rippers," machines capable of opening doorways into alternate universes which are created continuously from events in our world.

    Best Short Novels 2007, part 1 adamosf 2007

  • Its premise is that scientists invent "rippers," machines capable of opening doorways into alternate universes which are created continuously from events in our world.

    Archive 2007-09-01 adamosf 2007

  • Admins also meted out punishment to carders they didn't like or to "rippers" who cheated fellow carders.

    I Was a Cybercrook for the FBI 2007

  • This time they tried to keep that in mind (leading to the album's many "rippers" according to Jabour).

    Stereogum 2010

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