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• 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...
• Undertows (or ‘rips’) are the main problem. If you find yourself being carried out by a rip, the important thing to do is just keep afloat; don′t panic or try to swim against the rip, which will exhaust you. In most...
• 2010, Jeff Wilks, Donna Prendergast, Chapter 9: Beach Safety and Millennium Youth: Travellers and Sentinels, Pierre Benckendorff, Gianna Moscardo, Donna Pendergast, Tourism and Generation Y, page 100, Given that a large...

1. (Australia, New Zealand) A rip current: a strong outflow of surface water, away from the shore, that returns water from incoming waves.

2. (chiefly in the plural) A tract of broken water (in a river or stream), particularly one which is not as rough as rapids.

   • 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...
   • In the 5.8 miles between this point and the head of Burnt Land Rips the fall is 40 feet. The East Branch joins the main river about 1 1⁄2 miles below the rips at Medway. A part of this fall could probably be developed...
   • At the outlet of Round Pond is the beginning of Round Pond Rips. Rips is a Maine word that generally means easy rapids. They are not hard rapids, but require your attention, as there are plenty of rocks and ledges that...

• Some of these CD rips don't sound very good: what bitrate did you use?

1. (Internet slang, music, chiefly video games) Ellipsis of high quality rip.

• Well that's because groups are now releaseing^([sic]) music in their packs as well as vgas and rips. It^([sic]) you check out some local area code groups I'm sure you'll find high quality ansi if the group is good...
• Scans and rips sucks, ofcourse^([sic]). But a graphician, redrawing a picture does make him less good. A pixeled image should be judged by the skills and originality in the picture, not by the motive. - 2000, Jerker...

• Camp at Kakwa Wildland Park staging area to hit the trails at first light or take a short drive from the city and go for a rip at the Big Mountain area. - 2015 September 29, Mason Buettner, “Grande Prairie Has It All...

• Miss Compton, in 'Other People's Worries,' asks rhetorically whether a young rip was not in the Blank divorce case. - 1922, The Saturday Review, volume 133, page 359:
• If there were, in clubs and places where men talk, unpleasant rumours as to himself he preferred it to be thought that he was the rip, not his wife the strumpet. - 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not… (Parade's End),...

• to rip a garment; to rip up a floor
• For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. -...
• A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe....

• My shirt ripped when it was caught on a bramble.

• A child untimely ripped from its parents' arms.
• Mary is sister to the marginalized women who live unchronicled lives in oppressive situations. It does her no honor to rip her out of her conflictual, dangerous historical circumstances and transmute her into an icon of...

• He'll rip the fatal secret from her heart. - 1726, George Granville, Cleora:

• The tornado ripped through northern Nebraska.
• “Wall,” said the landlord, fetching a long breath, “that’s a purty long sarmon for a chap that rips a little now and then. ..." - 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 3:
• On 18 November 1987 a horrific flash fire ripped through the escalators and ticket hall of King's Cross tube station, killing thirty people. - 2007, Roger Baker, Emotional Processing, page 136:

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• He spent the day ripping shots at the bar and ripping blunts at home.
• ... ripping shots of cheap liquor is the easiest way to reach intoxication. It is cheaper and less time-consuming than sharing a craft beer with a friend. - 2019 July 15, Trevor Gundlach, Barstool Theology: Crafting the...
• "... ripping shots of Jack Daniel's and vomiting in the bathroom.” - 2022 September 12, Brian W. Kelly, Wilkes-Barre: Return to Glory Iii: The City’s Return to Glory Begins with Dreams and Ideas, Xlibris Corporation,...

• opensource is a double-edged sword. while you have a chance of people using and improving on the code, you will also have the chance of lamers ripping it. - 2001, rex deathstar, “Opensource on demoscene”, in...
• I don't really care if someone rips my 3d engine, rips effects code, or anything - simply because my 3d engine and effects will be far more advanced when someone manages to use my code. - 2001, Maciej Mróz, “thoughts on...
• […]an old demo by some bods called "kellogs and donovan" which had ripped graphics from the game "Barbarian"[…] - 2002, Ray Norrish, “Barbarian demo circa 1988?”, in alt.emulators.amiga (Usenet):