Hang
Hang verb - To place on an elevated point without support from below.
Rip
Rip verb - To proceed or move quickly.
Usage example: the car went ripping down the road
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Ashburn lets one rip when she finally gets a hang on cursing.
Source: Cluster F Bomb / Film -
People in the Dragon Age series tend to get really, really awesome dragon-killing animations involving climbing on top of it attacking it while it tosses its neck, flinging you up into the air, and come down right on its neck, hang on through some more bucking, and finally rip its head apart.
Source: Colossus Climb - If you're lucky, the cosmologists who predict the Big Rip will be right, and in a paltry 20 billion years the universe will be expanding so rapidly that your atoms won't even be able to hang together any more and your existence will finally end.
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