let rip
English
Verb
let rip (third-person singular simple present lets rip, present participle letting rip, simple past and past participle let rip)
- (transitive, informal) To unleash, let loose, uncork; to allow (something) to happen or proceed without restraint.
- When she heard the news, she let rip a tirade heard throughout the office.
- Ok, it's all clear. Let 'er rip.
- He let rip a fart that emptied the elevator at the next floor.
- (intransitive, usually with a prepositional phrase) To utter or release without restraint.
- She let rip with a tirade everyone heard.
- She let rip about Mary's flirting with Lizzie's boyfriend.
- (intransitive, slang) To fart.
- 2012, Dougie Brimson, Art of Fart, →ISBN:
- I would also urge you never to let rip within 50 metres of your mother-in-law
See also
References
- “let rip”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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