verb

• (transitive) 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 rip a garment; to rip up a floor"
• (intransitive) To tear apart; to rapidly become two parts.
  "My shirt ripped when it was caught on a bramble."
• (transitive) To remove violently or wrongly.
  "A child untimely ripped from its parents' arms."
• (transitive) To get by, or as if by, cutting or tearing.
  "He'll rip the fatal secret from her heart."

noun

• A type of strong, rough tide or current.
  "Rhythmic beaches consist of a rhythmic longshore bar that narrows and deepens when the rip crosses the breaker, and in between broadens, shoals and approaches the shore. It does not, however, reach the shore, with a continuous rip feeder channel feeding the rips to either side of the bar."
• A type of strong, rough tide or current.
  "At rare intervals the water is smooth and deep, but the rips, rapids and falls give the river its distinctive character. About two and a half miles from its mouth it contracts somewhat, and plunges over a precipice one hundred feet high[…]"
• (slang) A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action.
• (slang) A hit (dose) of marijuana.

noun

• (colloquial, regional, dated) A worthless horse; a nag.
• (colloquial, regional, dated) An immoral man; a rake, a scoundrel.
  "Miss Compton, in 'Other People's Worries,' asks rhetorically whether a young rip was not in the Blank divorce case."

noun

• (Scotland) A handful of unthreshed grain.