riptide
- n a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current
- n a strong surface current flowing outwards from a shore
- Like an offshore riptide that goes unnoticed from the town's beaches, the tension is hard to detect from a distance.
- This riptide of desire roars across the stage in a number called Anything Is Possible, a paean to the American dream in which Kaplan outlines his own humble wish to have a tailor .
- After he succumbed to an unforgiving riptide while bodysurfing near San Francisco's Ocean Beach on April 12 at 48, his close friend Harrod Blank remarked that Kennedy's works were .