Meanings of ripcord in English

Her body ached as if she'd gone bungee jumping without a ripcord.

The purpose of the ripcord is to throw off the opponents equilibrium.

He climbed under the canopy, found the ripcord and pulled it.

When the right time comes, simply pull the ripcord attached to the top here.

Put that inside your golden parachute and pull the ripcord.

Without thinking, he grabbed at the short fluttering ripcord.

Baumgartner reaches around to his front to get a feel for the placement of the ripcord.

There are two basic parts to the move; a ripcord wrist lock and a high knee strike.

When the ripcord is pulled, the direction of its withdrawal is from the canopy pack across the wearer's chest.

A 30-foot lanyard, with snap- hooks at both ends connected the parachute's ripcord grip to the airplane inside the door.

Thurston-Moon grabbed a whipper snipper from his vehicle, then repeatedly pulled the ripcord, prompting the victim to seek refuge inside a shop.

When he got to "four thousand" and still hadn't felt the opening shock, his right hand began automatically questing for the ripcord.

My left hand grasped the yellow ripcord for dear life as my right hand pressed against the side wall of the C-130 for balance.

He hooked his ripcord's clamp around the brace that ran overhead the length of the transport aircraft's spine and walked to the closed door.

The cord acts like a ripcord: when it is removed from the device, the alarm can be heard for a radius of half a kilometre.

The ambush occurred near a military encampment called Fire Support Base Ripcord.