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Definition of ripper in English: rippernoun ˈrɪpəˈrɪpər 1A tool that is used to tear or break something. Example sentencesExamples - However, a seam ripper can work just as well if you follow this simple method: Insert the point of the ripper just inside the bar tack on one side of the buttonhole.
- Bring the point of the seam ripper up through the fabric in the center of the buttonhole and cut only to the center.
- To create the reversed pockets featured on the shorts, use a seam ripper to carefully remove the pockets from the jeans, cutting the stitching only and not the fabric.
- Seam rippers and thread nippers slip nicely into empty prescription pill containers or film canisters.
- Carefully use the seam ripper to cut the stitches to open the end of the underwire channeling and remove the underwire.
- It was strong as can be, machine washable, and the patch was easily removed with a standard seam ripper.
- Have you ever started at one end of a buttonhole with your seam ripper, started to cut, and then slipped and cut through the stitches on the other end of the buttonhole?
- 1.1 A murderer who mutilates victims' bodies.
Example sentencesExamples - Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire ripper, between 1975 and 1980 mutilated and killed thirteen women, and attempted to murder a further six because he thought God had told him to do so.
- I mean maybe they didn't commit the jack the ripper killings but everything after that, they are guilty.
2Australian informal A thing that is particularly good. Example sentencesExamples - I've done a couple of rippers recently: for instance, there was Brisbane - Sydney - Middle East - Hong Kong - Istanbul - London, all in two weeks and playing in each place.
- However I can guarantee there are some absolute rippers this year, but I don't want to spoil the proper announcements.
- They had a ripper of a profits warning back in February, when it said early sales of its revolutionary laser eye surgery equipment would be held back by manufacturing problems and regulatory delays.
- 2.1 A good snowboarder.
adjective ˈrɪpə Australian informal Particularly good; excellent. everyone had a ripper time this record still sounds ripper Example sentencesExamples - They wrote this ripper little film and acted in it and shot it and it was hilariously funny.
- But everything of mine seems so tacky (trouser wise) but luckily, I found a ripper pair in the shop which are simply perfect.
Rhymes Agrippa, chipper, clipper, dipper, equipper, flipper, gripper, hipper, kipper, nipper, Pippa, shipper, sipper, skipper, slipper, stripper, tipper, tripper, whipper, zipper Definition of ripper in US English: rippernounˈripərˈrɪpər 1A tool that is used to tear or break something. Example sentencesExamples - Carefully use the seam ripper to cut the stitches to open the end of the underwire channeling and remove the underwire.
- Have you ever started at one end of a buttonhole with your seam ripper, started to cut, and then slipped and cut through the stitches on the other end of the buttonhole?
- However, a seam ripper can work just as well if you follow this simple method: Insert the point of the ripper just inside the bar tack on one side of the buttonhole.
- Bring the point of the seam ripper up through the fabric in the center of the buttonhole and cut only to the center.
- To create the reversed pockets featured on the shorts, use a seam ripper to carefully remove the pockets from the jeans, cutting the stitching only and not the fabric.
- Seam rippers and thread nippers slip nicely into empty prescription pill containers or film canisters.
- It was strong as can be, machine washable, and the patch was easily removed with a standard seam ripper.
- 1.1 A murderer who mutilates victims' bodies.
Example sentencesExamples - Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire ripper, between 1975 and 1980 mutilated and killed thirteen women, and attempted to murder a further six because he thought God had told him to do so.
- I mean maybe they didn't commit the jack the ripper killings but everything after that, they are guilty.
2Australian informal A thing that is particularly admirable or excellent. Example sentencesExamples - I've done a couple of rippers recently: for instance, there was Brisbane - Sydney - Middle East - Hong Kong - Istanbul - London, all in two weeks and playing in each place.
- They had a ripper of a profits warning back in February, when it said early sales of its revolutionary laser eye surgery equipment would be held back by manufacturing problems and regulatory delays.
- However I can guarantee there are some absolute rippers this year, but I don't want to spoil the proper announcements.
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