uprip
verbEtymology From up- + rip.
- Occasionally they force their way into a cabin and uprip its contents.1686, D. C. Gordon, Sherriff, Helena, Letter to Governor Clayton, Montana:
- Yet, saving Juan, who in manly wise / Withstood the shameful deed, no man was slain; / His bosom was upripped in woeful guise, / And from its habitance his heart was ta'en.1822, James Hogg, The poetical works of James Hogg, volume 3, page 25:
1 more example
- So fresh the stroke and cut and wound of them / Upripped across her mind and gaped and torn / Along her staggered, unrecovered heart.1968, John W. Lynch, A Woman Wrapped in Silence, page 72: