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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.]
ripping [ˈrɪpɪŋ]
adj
Archaic Brit slang excellent; splendid
rippingly  adv
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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
Translations
ripping [><ˈrɪpɪŋ><] ADJ (Brit) → estupendo, bárbaro
ripping
adj (dated Brit inf) → herrlich, wunderbar
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Thus does dear Hulot take in his one and only coaching lesson; and come the match, of course, he serves with the old crone's precise action to such rippingly unstoppable effect that whizzing ace follows whizzing ace as he utterly routs the fuming fancypants champ to win lovely Martine.
Hulot serves up a real box-office smash by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
Ripped-up mags have never seemed so rippingly magnificent.
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He emphasizes the play's farcical side, an approach that works rippingly well in the Act 2 scene in which various ingenues, cuckolded husbands and jealous lovers converge on Garry's studio in a door-slamming frenzy of romantic recrimination.
A COWARD-LY PETER PAN by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
 
 
 
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