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ripping

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rip·ping  (rpng)
adj. Informal
Excellent; marvelous: had a ripping time at the party.
[Probably from rip.]
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Adj.1.ripping - resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree; "the tree split with a great ripping sound"; "heard a rending roar as the crowd surged forward"
rending, splitting
cacophonic, cacophonous - having an unpleasant sound; "as cacophonous as a henyard"- John McCarten


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There must have been five thousand of them; and such another jawing and disputing and ripping and cussing, you never heard.
A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
Ripping the seam of the patch on the girl's forehead, she placed the powder within the head and then sewed up the seam as neatly and securely as before.
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And this time his teeth scored, ripping the tender and sensitive and flesh of all the inside of the first and second joints of Borckman's right hand.
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