Meaning

simple past and past participle of rip.

Definitions by Sense

1. simple past and past participle of rip
2. Torn, either partly or into separate pieces.
3. Pulled away from forcefully.
4. In data storage, transferred to a hard disk from another portable media form.
5. Copied or stolen usually from an identified source.
6. (bodybuilding) Having extremely low bodyfat content so that the shape of the underlying muscles become pronounced. Said especially of well-defined abdominal muscles or of men who have them.
7. (slang) Drunk, inebriated.

Example Sentences

Stream ripping had a major impact on the global recorded music industry in 2016. This fast growing piracy delivery method witnessed a 60% year-on-year growth globally.

Near-synonyms: jacked, shredded

With the average male competitor weighing around 220, the total poundage of raw, ripped mass in the preliminary lineup is over 3,700 pounds.

That's the premise of the overload principle, and it must be applied, even to ab training, if you're going to develop a cut, ripped midsection.

1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure So I commenced to drink the whole bottle for the 2nd time in my life & got really really ripped. I only remember bits of the nite.

Word Forms

• more ripped
• most ripped

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Use ripped when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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