Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun tide_rip
1 sense of tide rip
Sense 1
rip, riptide, tide rip, crosscurrent, countercurrent -- (a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current)
=> turbulence, turbulency -- (unstable flow of a liquid or gas)