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Jack the ___
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ripper
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife; "Jack the ripper was probably a madman"
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Ripper is a racquetball racquet . It is labeled with the word titanium , the slogan "Crushing power", the registered trademark " Wilson ", as well as the "U.S. Pat. No. 6,935,975". According to the on-line United States Patent and Trademark Office as of ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, agent noun from rip (v.). Meaning "killer who mutilates his victims" (1890) is from Jack the Ripper , notorious London murderer, whose nickname contains a pun on ripper in sense of "tool for ripping" old slates, etc. (1823) and the slang meaning ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ripler \Rip"ler\, Ripper \Rip"per\, n. [Cf. Rip a basket, or Riparian .] (O.E. Law) One who brings fish from the seacoast to markets in inland towns. [Obs.] But what's the action we are for now ? Robbing a ripper of his fish. --Beau. & Fl.
Usage examples of ripper.
It would have taken the Ripper five minutes or more to disembowel poor Catherine and arrange her innards on the ground the way he did.
I think it is highly significant that even after the frenzy created by the Jack the Ripper pseudonym, the writer of the Lusk letter does not use it.
DOOM PATROL, we meet hermaphroditic aliens and transvestite city streets, orgone cops and psychedelic pranksters, Gnostic terrorists and insect theologians and cultists who worship Jack the Ripper as God.
Now, as I understand it, this Wyrm fella is sorta like a mix-up between Satan and Jack the Ripper, with all the charm of Adolf Hitler.
As long as the media is filled with a transgenic Jack the Ripper, negotiating with Terminal City gets lost in the alarmist shuffle.
The standard boggart pit is six feet deep but for a ripper, the most dangerous boggart of all, nine feet is the norm.
Fido, distinguished and prolific author, scholar, criminologist, and now good friend, for his extraordinary contributions to the Jack the Ripper case and our understanding of it, as well as his general good counsel.
Taped to the inside of the locker was a picture of Orion Kronsteen in his Jack the Ripper makeup from London Screams, clipped reverentially from an old Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine.
The waking world gave birth to bloodworms and barbed rippers and spiked golems in their own organic armor.
This witness Anderson mentions is probably Joseph Lawende, the cigarette salesman who was believed to have seen Catherine Eddowes with the Ripper at the entrance to Mitre Square.
In the Ripper examination we discussed general motives of the lust murderer.
RIPPER L To SAY THE proprietor's accusation caused a stir atour table is like sayin' it would cause raised eye-brows to have Don Bruce as the guest speaker at aPoliceman's Banquet.
Not one of those mindless, looney-bin rejects who line the bookracks: The Exterminator, The Extincter, The Ripper, The Slasher, The Wiper-Outer, The Mutilator, The Ix-Nayer, all those same series, with their same covers, their same plots, and their same moronic machine-gunning leads who figure the best way to solve a problem is to shoot it.
A growing awareness of the importance of competent postmortem examinations and handling of evidence added further value and prestige to the office of coroner, and in 1888 - when the Ripper murders began - a governmental act mandated that death investigation findings by coroners would no longer render any sort of financial benefit to the crown.
A growing awareness of the importance of competent postmortem examinations and handling of evidence added further value and prestige to the office of coroner, and in 1888 - when the Ripper murders began - a governmental act mandated that death investigation findings by coroners would no longer render any sort of financial benefit to the crown.