(n)
Boston or New-England based eye-dialect for the term 'ripper', referring to a large party where it is assumed that party-goers
will become intoxicated and out of control; a party that
will be remembered for the damage done to objects, reputations, and livers
My boy Fred threw this wicked rippah at his
folks' house and some chowdahead
got thrown through the pool-house
window!