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RIPEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
Learned borrowing from Latin RIP (requiescat in pace) and an initialism of rest in peace.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗RIPEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
Originally coined in Selker et al. (1987) as an acronym for rearrangement induced premeiotically, which was later renamed repeat-induced point mutation in Cambareri et al. (1989).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗ripEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Middle English rippen, from earlier ryppen (“to pluck”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rupjaną and/or *ruppōną, intensive of *raupijaną, causative of Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp- (“to break”). Possible doublet of rub. Cognate with West Frisian rippe, ripje, roppe, ropje (“to rip”), Dutch dialectal rippen, Low German ruppen, German Low German röpen, German rupfen, also Old English rīpan, rīepan (“to plunder”) (whence English reap), West Frisian rippe (“to rip, tear”), German raufen (“to rip”); perhaps also, less likely, Albanian rrabe (“maquis”) and Latin rubus (“bramble”). More at reave, rob, and rub.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗ripEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
Uncertain; perhaps a variant of rep (“reprobate”).
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Chambers (1908)
1908- RipEnglish · e-38699-6637
Rip, rip, v.t. to divide by cutting or tearing: to cut open: to take out by cutting or tearing: to tear up for search or alteration: to explode, give vent to.—v.i. to break out violently.—v.t. to utter violently (with ou
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Rip, rip, n. (Scot.) a handful of grain not thrashed.
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