rip along

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English

Verb

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

(dated) To rush headlong.
- 1894, Mark Twain, chapter 1, in Tom Sawyer Abroad:
  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.
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- 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 2”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. , →OCLC:
  "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."

Synonyms

tear along

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