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单词 jack the ripper
释义

Jack the Rippern.

Brit. /ˌdʒak ðə ˈrɪpə/, U.S. /ˌdʒæk ðə ˈrɪpər/
Origin: From a proper name, combined with English elements. Etymons: proper name Jack , the adj., ripper n.
Etymology: < the male forename Jack (see Jack n.2) + the adj. + ripper n., a popular name for a murderer of women in London in 1888, who mutilated the bodies of his victims. The name first appeared in a letter claiming to be written by the murderer and published in newspapers on 1 October 1888: see quot. 18881 at main sense.
allusive.
A serial killer, a brutal murderer; (in extended use) a merciless or unscrupulous person.
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the world > life > death > killing > man-killer or homicide > [noun] > murderer or assassin > types of
assassin1340
Old Man of the Mountain1579
fedai1723
thug1810
nasty man1863
Jack the Ripper1888
ripper1909
trunk murderer1925
sex killer1935
mass-murderer1943
serial murderer1947
psycho-killer1949
serial killer1967
spree killer1983
1888 Daily Tel. 1 Oct. 3/6 Yours truly, Jack the Ripper. Don't mind me giving the trade name.]
1888 Bristol Mercury 10 Oct. 8/2 (headline) A Cardiff Jack the Ripper.
1889 Sat. Rev. 12 Jan. 30/2 A Whitechapel staircase with a Jack-the-Ripper at work upon it.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 29 June 5/2 Those mysterious political Jack-the-Rippers designated by the name of the Confederates.
1958 H. M. Hayward & M. Harari tr. B. Pasternak Dr. Zhivago ii. ix. 268 I expected to see a bashi-bazook or a revolutionary Jack the Ripper, but he was neither.
1972 A. E. Lindop Journey into Stone (1973) ii. 21 There's a lousy fog... It's a Jack the Ripper's paradise.
2010 D. McFadden Why are you so Long & Sweet? 218 No more Jack the Rippers!.. But we need scary stuff in order to live.

Compounds

attributive, with the sense ‘relating to or characteristic of Jack the Ripper’.
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1888 Dundee Courier & Argus 12 Oct. 4/3 Reprehensible conduct of a man in the West End—A ‘Jack the Ripper’ Craze.
1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 7 Mar. 5/1 A Jack the Ripper outrage at Moscow.
1919 C. P. Thompson Cocktails 17 If only the officer would let him have a whack at her over the open sights, he'd do the Jack-the-ripper act on her in half a tick.
1947 D. Kent in F. Owen Fireside Myst. Bk. 238 Shannon gave him another of those Jack-the-Ripper looks and began a systematic search of the body.
1977 P. H. Capstick Death in Long Grass iv. 158 The African Cape buffalo..has enjoyed a Jack the Ripper reputation since the first European thwacked one with a muzzle loader.
2017 Calgary (Alberta) Sun (Nexis) 15 Sept. a54 A Jack the Ripper style murderer is killing and mutilating young women.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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