RIPPER

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A murderer who slashes the victims with a knife

Example:

Jack the Ripper was probably a madman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("ripper" is a kind of...):

liquidator; manslayer; murderer (a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being))

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