rip along
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[edit]Verb
[edit]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.
- 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."