rip

noun, a disreputable, dissolute, or immoral man; a rake (“rip, n. 6” OED)

“I mean, when I was in school, there were boys that were as old as fifteen. ’Cause back then if you didn’t pass, you didn’t get to go on like they do now. Until you turned sixteen you had to stay in grade school. And so mostly boys were the ones that had to stay. So there was a couple of older boys in our school, and they were quite the rips.”