What does rip current mean?

rip current means "a strong surface current flowing outwards from a shore".

What is another word for rip current?

Close synonyms include riptide. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rip current a common word?

rip current is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Rip current — meaning and 1 synonym

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
a strong surface current flowing outwards from a shore
Synonymsriptide
Broadercurrent
Part oftide

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What does rip current mean?: rip current means "a strong surface current flowing outwards from a shore".
What is another word for rip current?: Close synonyms include riptide. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

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