Another Minnesota original - used by fishermen to describe the action of setting the hook too hard, resulting in literally ripping the lips off a fish.
My cousin and I were ripping lips today. We didn't catch a damn thing!
Hillbilly cover for risky midday sexual rendezvous.
When Gerald's wife left work early and arrived home before him, he was surprised to see her sitting on the porch with the shotgun when he got out of his truck prior to his scheduled 4:30 arrival.
When Lucinda asked him where he had been, he said "Out with the girls rippin lips." Lucinda took this to mean he had taken his nieces to the pond to catch some catfish.
Gerald was actually at the Lookout Lodge with Denise and Jackie for 45 minutes enjoying the most carefree day in their menstrual cycles.
A Shackteau is a humble, weather-beaten, structurally questionable shelter located in a spectacular or highly coveted place—Wales, Jackson Hole, Sun Valley, Crested Butte, coastal Maine, the Alps—where the building itself may be worth almost nothing, but the dirt, view, access, and mythology make it absurdly valuable.
In use:
Shackteâu - We thought it was an abandoned shed until the realtor called it a rare alpine Shackteâu with unobstructed views and listed it for $2million.