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rippon

rippon is the alternative form of ripon.

Meaning of ripon

Noun

ripon (plural ripons)

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang) A spur (goad for a horse etc.).

See all 5 meanings of ripon

Proper noun capitalized: Rippon

Rippon

  1. A surname.
  2. An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States, named after Ripon Lodge.

Forms of rippon

pluralrippons

Questions about rippon

What does rippon mean?
Rippon means a surname.
What is rippon the alternative form of?
Rippon is the alternative form of ripon.
What part of speech is rippon?
Rippon is a proper noun.

Words near rippon in the dictionary

  1. ripplings
  2. ripplon
  3. ripplonic
  4. ripplons
  5. ripply
  6. rippon
  7. Ripponden
  8. Ripponlea
  9. rippons
  10. Ripps
  11. rippy

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rippon (page history and authors); Rippon (page history and authors); ripon (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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