What is the meaning of rip?

noun

• A dissolute man in fashionable society.
  • synonyms: rake, rakehell, profligate, blood, roue
• An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart.
  • usage: "there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings"
  • synonyms: rent, snag, split, tear
• A stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current.
  • synonyms: riptide, tide rip, crosscurrent, countercurrent
• The act of rending or ripping or splitting something.
  • usage: "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip"
  • synonyms: rent, split

verb

• Tear or be torn violently.
  • usage: "The curtain ripped from top to bottom"; "pull the cooked chicken into strips"
  • synonyms: rend, rive, pull
• Move precipitously or violently.
  • usage: "The tornado ripped along the coast"
• Cut (wood) along the grain.
• Criticize or abuse strongly and violently.
  • usage: "The candidate ripped into his opponent mercilessly"