Jack the Ripper

noun

Jack the Ripper19th century19th centuryMCRIME AND POLICING: murderer an unidentified murderer who killed at least seven prostitutes in London's East End between August and November 1888

Jack the Ripper

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

Possibly he took me for a latter-day Jack-the-Ripper, with a penchant for elderly male paupers.

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!

A "Jack-the-Ripper" who openly declared himself would have nothing like the power of one working in the dark.

The prominence of a desire for notoriety is evident in criminals of the Jack-the-Ripper and other types.

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