adj. and adv. (common).—1.  Drunk; and (2) ready.

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  1609.  SHAKESPEARE, Tempest, v. 1. Trinculo is reeling RIPE: where should they find this grand liquor that hath gilded ’em?

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  c. 1615.  FLETCHER, The Woman’s Prize, i. 1.

        Do all the ramping, roaring tricks a whore
Being drunk, and tumbling RIPE.

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  d. 1704.  T. BROWN, Aristænetus’s Letters, in Works, i. 272. To shew you how soon the women of this age grow RIPE.…

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  1821.  P. EGAN, Life in London, 178. Jerry was now RIPE for anything.

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  1842.  TENNYSON, Poems, ‘Will Water-proof.’ Half mused or reeling-RIPE.

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