ripper
Speech parts
1. ripper - Noun
2. ripper - Adjective
3. Ripper - Proper noun
Meaning
One who brings fish from the seacoast to markets in inland towns.
One who, or that which, rips; a ripping tool.
A tool for trimming the edges of roofing slates.
Anything huge, extreme, startling, etc.
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Serial or sex murder, like fetishism, is a perversion of male intelligence. It is a criminal abstraction, masculine in its deranged egoism and orderliness. It is the asocial equivalent of philosophy, mathematics and music. There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.
No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.
There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.
I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
The public is entitled to know whether or not I am married to Jack The Ripper.
As long as he has a house with two bathrooms. I swear to God, I don't care if he's Jack the Ripper.