Rip

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To rip is the act of tearing an object.

Rip may also refer to:

Places

• The Rip, entrance to Port Phillip from Bass Strait in Victoria, Australia
• The Říp Mountain, a mountain in the Czech Republic
• Rip Point, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
• Rips, Sarandë, location in Albania on border with Greece
• 7711 Říp, an asteroid

People

Given name or nickname

• Rip (nickname)
• Jeong Rip (1574–1629), a scholar-official of the Korean Joseon Dynasty
• Shin Rip (1546–1592), Korean general
• Rip Van Dam (c. 1660–1749), acting governor of the Province of New York from 1731 to 1732

Surname

• Arie Rip (born 1941), Dutch social scientist
• Eliyahu Rips (born 1948), Israeli mathematician
• Willem Cornelis Rip (1856–1922), Dutch artist

Fictional characters

• Rip Hunter, a DC Comics character
• Rip Kirby, title character of the eponymous comic strip
• Rip Van Winkle, title character of the eponymous story by Washington Irving
• Rip Holland, from The Country Bears

Entertainment

• RiP!: A Remix Manifesto, a 2008 documentary about remixing and intellectual property
• Ripping, the process of copying audio or video from removable media to a hard disk
• Rip, in music, a type of glissando
• The Rip, a former band of New Zealand musician Alastair Galbraith (musician)

Ships

• Rip, originally HMQS Paluma, an Australian gunboat scrapped in the 1950s
• Rip, the name from 1947-1984 of HMAS Whyalla (J153), a decommissioned Australian corvette

Other uses

• Rip (dog), a World War II search-and-rescue dog
• Rip cut, severing or dividing a piece of wood parallel to the grain.

See also

• Rip current or rip tide, a strong surface flow of water returning seaward from near the shore
• All pages beginning with "Rip"
• All pages with titles containing Rip
• Ripper (disambiguation)