rip along

present singular third person rips along · participle present ripping along · participle past ripped along · past ripped along

1. datedTo rush headlong.

   "Well," said Mrs. Morel. "I'd starve before I'd sit down and seam twenty-four stockings for twopence ha'penny." "Oh, I don't know," said Mrs. Anthony. "You can rip along with 'em."

   1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 2”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC

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   And so they went ripping along, and everybody just petrified and cold to see it; and when they got to the Capitol at last it was the quickest trip that ever was made, and everybody said so.

   1894, Mark Twain, chapter 1, in Tom Sawyer Abroad

   Synonyms: tear along