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Rip· van Win·kle (rip′ van wiŋ′kəl)

the title character of a story (1819) by Washington Irving: Rip awakens after a twenty-year sleep to find everything changed

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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