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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.
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Possibly he took me for a latter-day Jack-the-Ripper, with a penchant for elderly male paupers.
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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!
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A "Jack-the-Ripper" who openly declared himself would have nothing like the power of one working in the dark.
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The prominence of a desire for notoriety is evident in criminals of the Jack-the-Ripper and other types.
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