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Ripper

noun

A murderer who slashes the victims with a knife.

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"Ripper" Quotes from Famous Books

... "It's a ripper!" said Blake, translating the more professional opinion of his mates to Father Tom. "But we ain't getting the worst of it here. These West Indianers travel narrow gauge tracks, and we're out of line. Killykinick is catching ...

— Killykinick • Mary T. Waggaman

... went out; he replied that it was, when they went out together; but that event rarely happened. Upon his return at dusk, he found the little skiff loose in the stream, and secured it. It was his servant-boy, David Ripper, who called his attention to it first of all. He saw nothing of Lord Hartledon, and had not very long secured the skiff when Mr. Percival Elster came up in the pony-carriage, asking if his brother was there. He looked at the skiff, ...

— Elster's Folly • Mrs. Henry Wood

... On came the Ripper, and, as she approached, the motor boys could not help admiring her. The craft was powerful and swift, much more so than the Dartaway had been. It was considerably larger, too, and had ...

— The Motor Boys on the Pacific • Clarence Young

... "I had very hard work to get them to come at all. Cicely has written them three or four times, I think, but they've always had engagements. They're only staying till Monday, I think. Very quiet, inoffensive sort of chap, Fielding, but the girl's a ripper! Hullo! Here ...

— A Maker of History • E. Phillips Oppenheim

Words linked to "Ripper" : Jack the Ripper, manslayer, liquidator, murderer