1. A murderer who slashes the victims with a knife
   "Jack the Ripper was probably a madman"
    
2. [Austral, informal] (dated slang) a remarkable or excellent thing or person
   "that story was a ripper";
   - corker [informal], pearler [Austral, informal]

1. Excellent
   "he did a ripper job";
   - bang-up [N. Amer, informal], bully [informal], corking [Brit, informal], cracking [Brit, informal], dandy [informal], great, groovy [informal], keen, neat, nifty [informal], not bad [informal], peachy, slap-up [informal], swell [informal], smashing [Brit, informal], old, not half bad [informal], grouse [Austral, NZ, informal], lovely

Derived forms: rippers

See also: good

Type of: content, liquidator, manslayer [archaic], message, murderer, subject matter, substance

Encyclopedia: Ripper, Eric