Synonym Game
Related Questions

ripper

[rip-er]

rip·per

[rip-er]
noun
1.
a person or thing that rips.
2.
Also, ripper bill, ripper act. a legislative bill or act for taking powers of appointment to and removal from office away from the usual holders of these powers and conferring them unrestrictedly on a chief executive, as a governor or mayor, or on a board of officials.
3.
a double-ripper.
4.
a killer who dispatches and often mutilates victims with a knife or similar weapon.
5.
Mining. a hooklike tool, attached to earth-moving machinery, for tearing away ore, rock, etc.
EXPAND
6.
Chiefly British Slang. something especially strong, fine, or good of its kind.
COLLAPSE

Origin:
1605–15; rip1 + -er1
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source Link To ripper

00:10

00:09

00:08

00:07

00:06

00:05

00:04

00:03

00:02

00:01

Ripper is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
Collins
World English Dictionary
ripper (ˈrɪpə)
 
n
1.  a person who rips
2.  a murderer who dissects or mutilates his victims' bodies
3.  informal chiefly (Austral), (NZ) a fine or excellent person or thing

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source
FOLDOC
Computing Dictionary

ripper definition


rip

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © Denis Howe 2010 http://foldoc.org
Cite This Source
Dictionary.com, LLC. Copyright © 2012. All rights reserved.
  • Please Login or Sign Up to use the Recent Searches feature
FAVORITES
RECENT