Rip

For abbreviations, see RIP.

To rip is the act of tearing an object. Rip may also refer to:

Places

• Nioro du Rip, a town in Senegal
• The Rip, entrance to Port Phillip from Bass Strait in Victoria, Australia
• The Říp Mountain, a mountain in the Czech Republic

People

• Rip Torn (born 1931), American actor
• Rip Taylor (born 1934), American actor
• Eliyahu Rips (born 1948), Israeli mathematician
• Richard "Rip" Hamilton (born 1978), American basketball player

Entertainment

• Ripping, the process of copying audio or video from removable media to a hard disk
• RiP!: A Remix Manifesto, a 2008 documentary about remixing and intellectual property

Oceanography

• Rip current or rip tide, a strong surface flow of water returning seaward from near the shore

Ships

• Rip, originally HMQS Paluma, an Australian gunboat scrapped in the 1950s
• Rip, the name from 1947-1984 of HMAS Whyalla (J153), a decommissioned Australian corvette

See also

• All pages beginning with "Rip"
• Rip It Up (disambiguation)