English words for 'Alternative spelling of ripsaw.'
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verb
noun
- (woodworking) A saw that is designed to cut wood along its grain, i.e. to rip, to execute a rip cut.
- (uncountable, music, Caribbean) A genre of music played with a ripsaw and other instruments, originally associated mainly with Turks and Caicos Islands.
- a handsaw for cutting with the grain of the wood
verb
- (slang) To cut up or chop up.
- (slang, idiomatic) To create or produce in a sudden or haphazard manner.
- (slang, idiomatic) To inject an illegal drug.
- (slang) To hit, send, or move forward or upward quickly or forcefully.
- (slang, idiomatic) To control or dominate someone or something in a thorough or severe manner.
- (slang, idiomatic) To mess up.
- (slang, idiomatic) To gather together; to accumulate or come up with.
- (slang) To strike someone or something repeatedly or very forcefully.
- (slang, idiomatic) To divide into shares; divvy.
- (idiomatic) To increase or raise by a sizeable amount.
- (slang, idiomatic) To pay, especially reluctantly or with difficulty; to cough up; to shell out.
intj
noun
- Ellipsis of ripsaw (“saw for cutting wood along its grain”).
- (slang) A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action.
- (slang) Something unfairly expensive, a rip-off.
- (chiefly in the plural) A tract of broken water (in a river or stream), particularly one which is not as rough as rapids.
- (slang) A fart.
- (UK, Eton College) A black mark given for substandard schoolwork.
- (Canada, slang) A joyride.
- A tear (in paper, etc.).
- (Scotland) A handful of unthreshed grain.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A rip current: a strong outflow of surface water, away from the shore, that returns water from incoming waves.
- (slang) A hit (dose) of marijuana.
- (computing, slang) Data or audio copied from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
- (music, informal) A kind of glissando leading up to the main note to be played.
- (demoscene, slang) Something ripped off or stolen; a work resulting from plagiarism.
- a dissolute man in fashionable society
- the act of rending or ripping or splitting something
- a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current
- an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
verb
- (intransitive, surfing, slang) To surf extremely well.
- To move or act fast; to rush headlong.
- (intransitive, figurative) To move quickly and destructively.
- (slang) To take a hit, dose or shot of a drug (such as marijuana) or alcohol.
- (transitive, slang, computing) To copy data from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc., to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
- (transitive) To get by, or as if by, cutting or tearing.
- (woodworking) To cut wood along (parallel to) the grain.
- (transitive, slang, chiefly demoscene) To steal; to rip off.
- (transitive) To divide or separate the parts of (especially something flimsy, such as paper or fabric), by cutting or tearing; to tear off or out by violence.
- (transitive) To remove violently or wrongly.
- (intransitive, slang) To be very good; rock
- (intransitive) To tear apart; to rapidly become two parts.
- (slang) To fart audibly.
- (transitive, sometimes US, slang) To mock or criticize (someone or something). (often used with on and into)
- move precipitously or violently
- tear or be torn violently
- cut (wood) along the grain
- criticize or abuse strongly and violently
- take without the owner's consent
noun
adj
noun
- (roofing) A method of asphalt shingle application, whereby shingle courses are applied vertically, up the roof rather than laterally across and up.
- (nautical) spun yarn used in racking ropes
- (brewing) The process of clarifying, and thereby deterring further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
verb
name
noun
noun
- (statistics) Alternative spelling of jackknife.
- The front-dive pike, in which the body folds and unfolds.
- A game of skill played with a pocket knife in which participants try to throw or flip the knife to stick upright in the ground at specified points or areas; mumblety-peg.
- (colloquial) A semi-trailer truck accident in which the vehicle mimics the closing of a jack-knife.
- A compact folding knife.
verb
name
verb
noun
- (heraldry) An appendage to the shield, placed above it, and supporting the crest; an orle, a torse. It generally represents a twist of two cords of silk, one tinctured like the principal metal, the other like the principal color in the coat of arms.
- A defect in glass.
- Something twisted, intertwined, or curled.
- An ornamental circular band made, for example, of plaited flowers and leaves, and used as decoration; a garland or chaplet, especially one given to a victor.
- flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes
name
verb
noun
- (originally US jazz slang) One's skill at musical interpretation and delivery; musical performance ability.
- (juggling) A pattern that involves carrying the object with the hand over the next object before throwing it.
- plural of chop
- (Australia, Nigeria, slang) Food.
- (nautical) The area where two tides meet and cause an irregular (choppy) sea.
- (informal, by extension) One's skill at any endeavor; ability, talent; competency.
- (slang) Jaws, lips, mouth.
noun
intj
noun
- Ellipsis of ripsaw (“saw for cutting wood along its grain”).
- (slang) A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action.
- (slang) Something unfairly expensive, a rip-off.
- (chiefly in the plural) A tract of broken water (in a river or stream), particularly one which is not as rough as rapids.
- (slang) A fart.
- (UK, Eton College) A black mark given for substandard schoolwork.
- (Canada, slang) A joyride.
- A tear (in paper, etc.).
- (Scotland) A handful of unthreshed grain.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A rip current: a strong outflow of surface water, away from the shore, that returns water from incoming waves.
- (slang) A hit (dose) of marijuana.
- (computing, slang) Data or audio copied from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
- (music, informal) A kind of glissando leading up to the main note to be played.
- (demoscene, slang) Something ripped off or stolen; a work resulting from plagiarism.
- a dissolute man in fashionable society
- the act of rending or ripping or splitting something
- a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current
- an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
verb
- (intransitive, surfing, slang) To surf extremely well.
- To move or act fast; to rush headlong.
- (intransitive, figurative) To move quickly and destructively.
- (slang) To take a hit, dose or shot of a drug (such as marijuana) or alcohol.
- (transitive, slang, computing) To copy data from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc., to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
- (transitive) To get by, or as if by, cutting or tearing.
- (woodworking) To cut wood along (parallel to) the grain.
- (transitive, slang, chiefly demoscene) To steal; to rip off.
- (transitive) To divide or separate the parts of (especially something flimsy, such as paper or fabric), by cutting or tearing; to tear off or out by violence.
- (transitive) To remove violently or wrongly.
- (intransitive, slang) To be very good; rock
- (intransitive) To tear apart; to rapidly become two parts.
- (slang) To fart audibly.
- (transitive, sometimes US, slang) To mock or criticize (someone or something). (often used with on and into)
- move precipitously or violently
- tear or be torn violently
- cut (wood) along the grain
- criticize or abuse strongly and violently
- take without the owner's consent
verb
noun
- (woodworking) A saw that is designed to cut wood along its grain, i.e. to rip, to execute a rip cut.
- (uncountable, music, Caribbean) A genre of music played with a ripsaw and other instruments, originally associated mainly with Turks and Caicos Islands.
- a handsaw for cutting with the grain of the wood
noun
noun
- (statistics) Alternative spelling of jackknife.
- The front-dive pike, in which the body folds and unfolds.
- A game of skill played with a pocket knife in which participants try to throw or flip the knife to stick upright in the ground at specified points or areas; mumblety-peg.
- (colloquial) A semi-trailer truck accident in which the vehicle mimics the closing of a jack-knife.
- A compact folding knife.
verb
verb
noun
- (woodworking) A saw that is designed to cut wood along its grain, i.e. to rip, to execute a rip cut.
- (uncountable, music, Caribbean) A genre of music played with a ripsaw and other instruments, originally associated mainly with Turks and Caicos Islands.
- a handsaw for cutting with the grain of the wood
verb
- (slang) To cut up or chop up.
- (slang, idiomatic) To create or produce in a sudden or haphazard manner.
- (slang, idiomatic) To inject an illegal drug.
- (slang) To hit, send, or move forward or upward quickly or forcefully.
- (slang, idiomatic) To control or dominate someone or something in a thorough or severe manner.
- (slang, idiomatic) To mess up.
- (slang, idiomatic) To gather together; to accumulate or come up with.
- (slang) To strike someone or something repeatedly or very forcefully.
- (slang, idiomatic) To divide into shares; divvy.
- (idiomatic) To increase or raise by a sizeable amount.
- (slang, idiomatic) To pay, especially reluctantly or with difficulty; to cough up; to shell out.
verb
noun
- (heraldry) An appendage to the shield, placed above it, and supporting the crest; an orle, a torse. It generally represents a twist of two cords of silk, one tinctured like the principal metal, the other like the principal color in the coat of arms.
- A defect in glass.
- Something twisted, intertwined, or curled.
- An ornamental circular band made, for example, of plaited flowers and leaves, and used as decoration; a garland or chaplet, especially one given to a victor.
- flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes
verb
noun
- (originally US jazz slang) One's skill at musical interpretation and delivery; musical performance ability.
- (juggling) A pattern that involves carrying the object with the hand over the next object before throwing it.
- plural of chop
- (Australia, Nigeria, slang) Food.
- (nautical) The area where two tides meet and cause an irregular (choppy) sea.
- (informal, by extension) One's skill at any endeavor; ability, talent; competency.
- (slang) Jaws, lips, mouth.
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adj
noun
- (roofing) A method of asphalt shingle application, whereby shingle courses are applied vertically, up the roof rather than laterally across and up.
- (nautical) spun yarn used in racking ropes
- (brewing) The process of clarifying, and thereby deterring further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.