tide rip

1. 1.

   a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current

   Synonymsripriptidecrosscurrentcountercurrent

   Broaderturbulence

Questions about tide rip

What does tide rip mean?

tide rip means "a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current".

What is another word for tide rip?

Close synonyms include rip, riptide, crosscurrent, countercurrent. 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 tide rip a common word?

tide rip is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.