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rip tide

rip tide is the alternative spelling of riptide.

Meaning of riptide

Noun

riptide (plural riptides)

  1. A particularly strong tidal current.
    Synonyms:
    rip current
  2. (proscribed, sometimes) A rip current which may carry a swimmer offshore.
    • This beach suffers from a riptide that can easily sweep you out to sea.

Forms of rip tide

pluralrip tides

Questions about rip tide

What is rip tide the alternative spelling of?
Rip tide is the alternative spelling of riptide.

Words near rip tide in the dictionary

  1. rip someone a new asshole
  2. rip someone a new one
  3. rip someone's head off
  4. rip the band-aid off
  5. rip the piss
  6. rip tide
  7. rip tides
  8. rip to shreds
  9. RIP troll
  10. RIP trolling
  11. RIP trolls

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rip tide (page history and authors); riptide (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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