"give a rip" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-give a rip.ogg [Australia] Forms: gives a rip [present, singular, third-person], giving a rip [participle, present], gave a rip [participle, past], gave a rip [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|give<,,gave> a rip}} give a rip (third-person singular simple present gives a rip, present participle giving a rip, simple past and past participle gave a rip)
  1. (idiomatic) To care. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-give_a_rip-en-verb-XLCVhf3G Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for give a rip meaning in English (1.4kB)

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