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.. 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
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Rippped with three p's, or is that just a typo?
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typo ~ MOI?! I do not know of what you speak
but if I did I would be taking the P very gently - aythangyu ;)
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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.
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Could it come from rippled?
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Could it come from rippled?
Rippled muscles. Good one!
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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>
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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'...?
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