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41Rip cord — 1. (A[ e]ronautics) A cord by which the gas bag of a balloon may be ripped open for a limited distance to release the gas quickly and so cause immediate descent. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 2. a cord which, when pulled, opens a parachute. [PJC] …
42Rip Taylor — (* 13. Januar 1934 in Washington D.C. als Charles Elmer Taylor) ist ein US amerikanischer Schauspieler und Entertainer. Taylor wurde im Jahr 1969 durch seine Auftritte in der Fernsehshow von Ed Sullivan bekannt. Später folgten The Gong Show… …
43rip-roaring — adj, adv informal exciting and full of energy ▪ Micky had a rip roaring time spending his first wage packet …
44rip-roaring — rip ,roaring adjective only before noun INFORMAL very lively and exciting: The show was a rip roaring success …
45rip van Winkle — Rip van Winkle is a character in a story who slept for twenty years, so if someone is a Rip van Winkle, they are behind the times and out of touch with what s happening now. (Dorking School Dictionary) …
46rip (someone) off — 1. to cheat or deceive someone. If your kids lie to you, you feel emotionally ripped off. She offers advice on how you can keep restaurants from ripping you off. 2. to steal from someone. He admitted he had ripped off a drug smuggler and blown up …
47rip cord — rip′ cord n. 1) a cord on a parachute that, when pulled, opens the parachute for descent 2) a cord fastened in the bag of a passenger balloon or dirigible that, when pulled, will rip or open the bag and let the gas escape, causing the balloon to… …
48rip|ple — rip|ple1 «RIHP uhl», noun, verb, pled, pling. –n. 1. a very little wave: »Throw a stone into still water and watch the ripples spread in rings. SYNONYM(S): See syn. under wave. (Cf. ↑wave) 2. anything that seems like a tin …
49Rip Van Win|kle — «RIHP van WIHNG kuhl», 1. a story by Washington Irving. 2. its hero, who falls asleep and wakes 20 years later to find everything changed. 3. someone who is unaware of current events and conditions …
50rip-towel — [rip towel ‘The gratuity or reward given to customary Tenants, when they have reaped their Lord s Corn’. Manley Cowell s Interpreter s.v. Reap towel (and hence in later Dicts.), citing MS. Cott. Nero A. xii. fol. 104 b (c 1350). The word in the… …
