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
• Tim "Ripper" Owens, Heavy Metal singer
• CD ripper, a piece of software that reads compact discs and extracts audio data and stores it in an audio format computer file
• DVD ripper, a computer application that copies the contents of a DVD to a harddisk
• Ripper (copier), a person who is seriously and continuously involved in the ripping process
• John the Ripper, a password cracking tool
• A slater's tool with a blade and a hook, used for removing broken slate
• A moveable hard steel hook on the back of a bulldozer used to break up hard soil or pavement
  

  

  Multi shank ripper on a bulldozer
• A variety of hot dog in which the meat is deep-fried to the point where the casing ruptures due to the intense build-up of heat and moisture beneath - resulting in a distinctive crispy and "ripped" exterior
• Ripper (racquet), a patented raquetball racquet from Wilson Sporting Goods
• Ripper (hot dog), a variety of hot dog served in New Jersey
• A well-known skateboard graphic from Powell Peralta

[edit] In fiction

• Ripper (game), a computer game released in 1996 by Take-Two Interactive
• Ripper (Harry Potter), 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 or made-for-TV movie from the tv series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Rupert Giles, a character from Buffy the Vampire Slayer who was also known as "Ripper"
• Rippers, a type of creature in the Metroid video game franchise
• A race of mutant kangaroo–human hybrids in the graphic novel/movie Tank Girl
• 'Ripper', the villain played by Tom Noonan in the Arnold Schwarzenegger film Last Action Hero