RIPPED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ripped mean? 

• RIPPED (adjective)
  The adjective RIPPED has 1 sense:

1. stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)

  Familiarity information: RIPPED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIPPED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)

Synonyms:

drunk; gone; inebriated; intoxicated; ripped

Context example:

helplessly inebriated

Similar:

bacchanal; bacchanalian; bacchic; carousing; orgiastic (used of riotously drunken merrymaking)

beery (smelling of beer)

besotted; blind drunk; blotto; cockeyed; crocked; fuddled; loaded; pie-eyed; pissed; pixilated; plastered; slopped; sloshed; smashed; soaked; soused; sozzled; squiffy; stiff; tight; wet (very drunk)

potty; tiddly; tipsy (slightly intoxicated)

bibulous; boozy; drunken; sottish (given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol)

doped; drugged; narcotised; narcotized (under the influence of narcotics)

half-seas-over (British informal for 'intoxicated')

high; mellow (slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana))

hopped-up; stoned (under the influence of narcotics)

 Context examples 

One potential explanation of the Cow is that a star has been ripped apart in what astronomers call a "tidal disruption event."

(Mysterious Blast Studied with NASA Telescopes, NASA)

He was fully clothed, though his shirt was ripped open in front.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He did not pause to worry the victim, but ripped in passing, with the next bound tearing wide the throat of a second man.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He ripped them open or split their skulls with shrewdly driven blows of his great hoofs.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He ripped the remnant of one of his blankets into strips and bound his bleeding feet.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

When I got back with the basin, the doctor had already ripped up the captain's sleeve and exposed his great sinewy arm.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The collision ripped the dwarf to shreds, leaving its stars moving on very radial orbits, like needles.

(The Gaia Sausage: the major collision that changed the Milky Way, University of Cambridge)

The sizzling planet is so close to its star that it is on the cusp of being ripped apart by the star's gravity.

(Hubble Uncovers a ‘Heavy Metal’ Exoplanet Shaped Like a Football, NASA)

Then his hand went to his collar, which he ripped out of the shirt and stuffed into his pocket.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A colossal impact with a large asteroid early in Mars' history may have ripped off a chunk of the northern hemisphere and left behind a legacy of metallic elements in the planet's interior.

(Ancient Asteroid Impact Explains Martian Geological Mysteries, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)