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rip along

rip along verb: to rush headlong.

Verb

rip along (third-person singular simple present rips along, present participle ripping along, simple past and past participle ripped along)

  1. (dated) To rush headlong.
    • And so they went ripping along, and everybody just petrified and cold to see it; and when they got to the Capitol at last it was the quickest trip that ever was made, and everybody said so.1894, Mark Twain, chapter 1, in Tom Sawyer Abroad
    • "Well," said Mrs. Morel. "I'd starve before I'd sit down and seam twenty-four stockings for twopence ha'penny."
      "Oh, I don't know," said Mrs. Anthony. "You can rip along with 'em."1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 2”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    tear along

Synonyms of rip along

Forms of rip along

third-person singular presentrips along
present participleripping along
past participleripped along
pastripped along

Questions about rip along

What does rip along mean?
Rip along means to rush headlong.
What part of speech is rip along?
Rip along is a verb.
What is the past tense of rip along?
The past tense of rip along is ripped along.

Words near rip along in the dictionary

  1. riotry
  2. riots
  3. rip
  4. rip a page out of someone's book
  5. rip a page out of someone's playbook
  6. rip along
  7. rip and dip
  8. rip apart
  9. rip ass
  10. rip box
  11. rip boxes

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