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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread My body's a temple... #138451 01/31/2005 1:53 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 .. it's just a large congregation! Does anyone know the origin of the word ripped in the bodybuilding sense? AFAIK the last time this came up was a tangent (wot a surprise!) in another discussion and did not get nailed: http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=53047 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: My body's a temple... #138452 01/31/2005 2:58 PM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Rippped with three p's, or is that just a typo? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: My body's a temple... #138453 01/31/2005 3:06 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 typo ~ MOI?! I do not know of what you speak but if I did I would be taking the P very gently - aythangyu ;) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: My body's a temple... #138454 01/31/2005 7:39 PM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC My assumption has always been that it is tied in somehow with repped. A rep is bodybuilder talk for a repetition of an exercise, and when I first saw ripped in this context I made that connection in my mind. TEd Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: My body's a temple... #138455 01/31/2005 7:43 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Could it come from rippled? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: My body's a temple... #138456 01/31/2005 7:55 PM Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 1,385 plutarch veteran plutarch veteran Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 1,385 Could it come from rippled? Rippled muscles. Good one! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: My body's a temple... #138457 01/31/2005 8:15 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass well TEd, Ripped is right next to Rep in "Bodybuilding Jargon".. Ripped: A condition of extremely low bodyfat with superior muscle separation and vascularity. Variations include sliced, cut, and cross-straited. seems like there could be a transferral from Butcher's Jargon here. <g> edit - Dr. Squat has it thusly: Ripped -- Slang meaning extremely visible muscularity resulting from both hypertrophy and subcutaneous fat removal. removal by ripping?? edit[2] - maybe there's a drug (e.g., steroid) connection, as in "man, are you ripped!"? <g> Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: My body's a temple... #138458 01/31/2005 9:30 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 I first heard this from the mouth of an LA confidential friend, and took it to have Lala provenance - is it possible it's a transfer from the argot of surf dudes, where I think rip used to equate to the standard English of 'top performance'...? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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