off the rip

English

Prepositional phrase

off the rip

1. (African-American Vernacular, slang) From the very beginning; immediately; right away.
   • 2009, CASH, Trust No Man: Loyalty To Those Who Are Loyal:

     It was obvious Toi's new boyfriend had spent a lot of dough decorating her crib, which put me on alert, 'cause it ain't like he lived with her. So, off the rip I'm wondering what his crib looks like 'cause, unless he's the sweetest trick in the Dirty South, I figured he ain't done laced Toi's crib better than his own.

   • 2010, T. Styles, Raunchy, page 287:

     We've searched high and low for this dude and still can't get at him. And now you think you can come home and find him off the rip?

   • 2018, U-God [Lamont Hawkins], Raw: My Journey Into The Wu-Tang, New York, N.Y.: Picador, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 116–117:

     The guy who got shot wasn't my peoples, we had our little beefs and never really got along, but we were from the same hood, so I felt bad when he lost an eye over some Brooklyn dudes trying to invade our turf. We should have handled the intrusion off the rip.

Further reading

• “off the rip”, in Urban Dictionary, launched 1999.