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单词 jack the ripper
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Example sentences from the Web for Jack the Ripper

  • I tell you that the man who can work out plots like those might be a second Jack-the-Ripper and not a soul the wiser!

    The Yellow Claw|Sax Rohmer
  • A "Jack-the-Ripper" who openly declared himself would have nothing like the power of one working in the dark.

    England|Frank Fox
  • The prominence of a desire for notoriety is evident in criminals of the Jack-the-Ripper and other types.

    A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution|C. M. Williams

Jack the Ripper


noun

an unidentified murderer who killed at least seven prostitutes in London's East End between August and November 1888

Words nearby Jack the Ripper

jackstraw, jackstraws, jack-tar, Jack-the-lad, Jack-the-rags, Jack the Ripper, jack towel, jack truss, jack-up, jack-up rig, jacky
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Cultural definitions for Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper

A criminal in London in the late nineteenth century apparently responsible for several ghastly murders by slashing. His identity is unknown.

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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