Used in a Sentence

rips

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for rips.

Editorial note

Nothing rips your soul out quicker than trying to get 20 or more people to agree on something.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

To move or act fast; to rush headlong.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of rips gathered in one view.

verb

To move or act fast; to rush headlong.

noun

A tear (in paper, etc.).

noun

A type of strong, rough tide or current.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for rips.

verb

To move or act fast; to rush headlong.

noun

A tear (in paper, etc.).

noun

A type of strong, rough tide or current.

noun

Routing information protocol, a dynamic routing protocol used in local and wide area networks.

Example sentences

1

Nothing rips your soul out quicker than trying to get 20 or more people to agree on something.

2

In other news: not single person who rips their own CDs in all of Europe will give a crap.

3

If Oracle just rips off the Unsafe band-aid without a replacement, the business decision for these firms is still sound.

4

It's not actually any more complicated, involving just opening Maxx and letting opening the files it rips in your media player.

5

Sell them, not that they're worth anything now, keep the rips, steal all the new stuff and don't feel guilty about it.

6

Just seems most friends who still use cannabis for fun or for medicine have moved past joints and bong rips whenever possible.

7

Remember though, what rips your sides out may be completely inane to somebody else.

8

Two weeks wasted after iTunes turned the rips into a jumble of random files.

9

Probably half of the class broke rips and I broke probably all the ribs in both sides.

10

I did get the benefit of my old Napster rips finally turning up in decent quality with a nice conscience wipe.

11

It is designed to cut off the audio after 20 minutes which you see on a PS3 with many Bluray Disc rips released on torrents.

12

Open the loaf of bread: Rips open the entire package.

Quote examples

1

So, is there a compound in say, peanuts, that "rips apart cells"?

2

"it's a company that rips you off" Citation needed...

3

Only in the last few months of a project everyone rips out useless code, debug code, debug overlays, loggers, extra network connections for statistic and performance servers,and finally you can produce a "nearly" final version of the game that doesn't have any debug code in - and only in that state you can see how it will run on actual hardware and start optimizing from there.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use rips in a sentence?

Nothing rips your soul out quicker than trying to get 20 or more people to agree on something.

What does rips mean?

To move or act fast; to rush headlong.

What part of speech is rips?

rips is commonly used as verb, noun.