Definitions for ripper

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ripper rip·per

Spelling: [rip-er]

IPA: /ˈrɪp ər/

Ripper is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in ripper (eipprr).

Definitions for ripper

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.
6. Chiefly British Slang. something especially strong, fine, or good of its kind.

Origin of ripper

First recorded in 1605-15; rip¹ + -er¹

Examples for ripper

Of course, you could protest that Sherlock did not really exist and the ripper did.

LONDON — If Sherlock Holmes was such a smart detective, why was he not put on the case of Jack the ripper?

Its a ripper, the gramophone, I mean, like some other people I am thinking of!

In the parlance of the Lieutenant, the old horse was indeed "a ripper."

"Jack Chesterford, because he is such a ripper," said Nadine.

Did the ripper quit because he feared that he was close to being caught?

Is it so lovely really, that Aunt Dodo has settled to marry the ripper?

This makes the guide to the Jack the ripper Walk seem rather dated.

Bob Pillin saw her white round throat, and thought: 'She is a ripper!'

Later heads of Scotland Yard admitted that the ripper should have been caught.