Ripper
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Ripper may refer to:
- Jack the Ripper, a pseudonym given to an unidentified serial killer (or killers) active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area and adjacent districts of London in the latter half of 1888.
- The Yorkshire Ripper, the serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, who killed thirteen women in Yorkshire during the 1970s.
- Brandon Vedas, a man who died of drug overdose on IRC.
- CD ripper, a piece of software that reads compact discs and extracts audio data and stores it in an audio format computer file
- John the Ripper, a password cracking tool
- A slater's tool with a blade and a hook, used for removing broken slate
[edit] In fiction
- Ripper (game), a computer game released in 1996 by Take-Two Interactive
- Ripper (Harry Potter) is the name of Aunt Marge's bulldog in the Harry Potter series of novels
- Ripper (Slade), the fourth novel in Michael Slade's long running Special X series
- Ripper (film), a 2001 horror film, starring A. J. Cook and Bruce Payne
- Ripper (television), a proposed spin-off series from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Rippers are a type of creature in the Metroid video game franchise
- A race of mutant kangaroo–human hybrids in the graphic novel/movie Tank Girl.
[edit] Other Uses
- Used as slang in Eastern Canada, particularly the Maritime provinces, to describe individuals who are recklessly carefree, and who often use drugs or engage in petty crime.
- Used as slang to describe strippers or exotic dancers.
- Another name for a tool for stripping or peeling surfaces.
- Used as slang in Northeastern United States as doing a large line of cocaine.
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