Rip

1. To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; -- usually with up.
2. A wicker fish basket.
3. A body of water made rough by the meeting of opposing tides or currents.
4. To saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber.
5. To divide or separate the parts of, by cutting or tearing; to tear or cut open or off; to tear off or out by violence; as, to rip a garment by cutting the stitches; to rip off the skin of a beast; to rip up a floor; -- commonly used with up, open, off.
6. A term applied to a mean, worthless thing or person, as to a scamp, a debauchee, or a prostitute, or a worn-out horse.
7. To get by, or as by, cutting or tearing.
8. A rent made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn; laceration.