Crossword-Solution: RIPPER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ripper | n. | One who brings fish from the seacoast to markets in inland towns. |
| Ripper | n. | One who, or that which, rips; a ripping tool. |
| Ripper | n. | A tool for trimming the edges of roofing slates. |
| Ripper | n. | Anything huge, extreme, startling, etc. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “RIPPER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Australian slang: great, excellent, bonzer | 1 answer |
| Jack the __ | 1 answer |
| Jack's sensational sobriquet | 1 answer |
| Jack's sobriquet, with "the" | 1 answer |
| Killer with a knife | 1 answer |
| Terror of 1888 London | 1 answer |
| person who rips | 1 answer |
| Humdinger | 26 answers |
| render | 42 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RIPPER (5)
That he might make his appearance before his mistress in the true style of a cavalier, he borrowed a horse from the farmer with whom he was domiciliated, a choleric old Dutchman of the name of Hans Van Ripper, and, thus gallantly mounted, issued forth like a knight-errant in quest of adventures.
Such was the appearance of Ichabod and his steed as they shambled out of the gate of Hans Van Ripper, and it was altogether such an apparition as is seldom to be met with in broad daylight.
Then, he thought, how soon he’d turn his back upon the old schoolhouse; snap his fingers in the face of Hans Van Ripper, and every other niggardly patron, and kick any itinerant pedagogue out of doors that should dare to call him comrade! Old Baltus Van Tassel moved about among his guests with a face dilated with content and good humor, round and jolly as the harvest moon.
For a moment the terror of Hans Van Ripper’s wrath passed across his mind,--for it was his Sunday saddle; but this was no time for petty fears; the goblin was hard on his haunches; and (unskilful rider that he was!) he had much ado to maintain his seat; sometimes slipping on one side, sometimes on another, and sometimes jolted on the high ridge of his horse’s backbone, with a violence that he verily feared would cleave him asunder.
Hans Van Ripper as executor of his estate, examined the bundle which contained all his worldly effects.
Quotes with RIPPER (3)
It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?
The issue which faced the jury was this: was Sutcliffe a clever criminal, aware of what he was doing and determined to avoid capture? ... In a sense, it was the wrong question. The battle that was fought out in court - the mad/bad dichotomy - both substitutes for and obscures the real dilemma raised by the Yorkshire Ripper case: is Sutcliffe a one-off, su generis as I have heard one psychiatrist describe him, someone who stands outside our culture and has no relation to it? T…
How miserably hypocritical, you might say, but no sooner am I offered a chance to flee Hell than I yearn to stay. Few families hold their relations as closely as do prisons. Few marriages sustain the high level of passion that exists between criminals and those who seek to bring them to justice. It’s no wonder the Zodiac Killer flirted so relentlessly with the police. Or that Jack the Ripper courted and baited detectives with his - or her - coy letters. We all wish to be pursued. We all long to be desired.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NY Sun, NYT, WSJ.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1970–2017).