In high school, me and my friends used to call getting stoned (or being stoned) “ripped”. Like if you just smoked a couple joints we would say, “I’m ripped”. Or if you wanted to smoke some pot we would say, "I want to get “ripped”.
This was the seventies.
Cut to: The 1990’s. My nephew is 24 or 25. We’re at my sisters house looking through old photographs of the family. My nephew picks up an old photo of me in high school where I’m about 17 and I’m wearing a kinda tight t-shirt. He looks at the photo and he says, “Wow Uncle Nick, you were ripped!” I looked at him in shock and say, “How could you tell!?”
Well in the nineties, “ripped” meant you were in good shape and had a good physique and you were muscular( I was in good shape in high school I worked out with weights reguarly). Lol, I thought he could tell I was stoned in the picture. So he was just saying I looked strong. We had a little confusion and then we got it straightened out what he meant.
I kind of blew it because I didn’t exactly want him to know I smoked pot!