ripping

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of rip

1. That rips, or can be removed by ripping.
2. datedslangExcellent.

   We never had a Christmas in the country before. It was simply ripping.

   1904, E[dith] Nesbit, “(please specify the page)”, in New Treasure Seekers, London: Ernest Benn, →OCLC

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   “First-class place, Simla. Oh, ri—ipping!” said Bobby Wick, and ordered new white cord breeches on the strength of it.

   1889, Rudyard Kipling, “Only A Subaltern”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 143

   “Certainly, I quite understand, my dear fellow,” Tennington had replied. “But you are to be congratulated—ripping girl, don’t you know—really.”

   1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 111

   And ‘blubbing’ . . . Blubbing went out with ‘decent’ and ‘ripping’. Mind you, not a bad new language to start up. 1920s schoolboy slang could be due for a revival.

   [1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section II, page 24

   After Sir John Hall came Freddy Shepherd, and after him came Mike Ashley, who thought that tipping up to games in one of the replica shirts he flogs at Lillywhite's was a ripping wheeze.

   2009, Michael Henderson, 50 People Who Fouled Up Football

plural rippings

1. The action of one who rips (in any sense).
   1. countableuncountableThe process of copying audio or video content from a CD, DVD, etc. to a hard disk.
   2. countableuncountableartsWood that has been ripped (cut parallel to the grain).
   3. AustraliacountableuncountableThe process of ploughing a rabbit warren with deep furrows as a form of feral control.
   4. countableuncountablebodybuildingThe use of diet and exercise to reduce body fat and emphasize muscle mass.