Whitechapel

[ hwahyt-chap-uhl, wahyt- ]

noun

1. a district in E London, England.

Whitechapel

/ ˈwaɪtˌtʃæpəl /

noun

1. billiards the act of potting one's opponent's white ball

Word History and Origins

Origin of Whitechapel¹

C19: slang use of Whitechapel, a district of London

Example Sentences

Mr Cash, from Whitechapel, east London, and Mr Berry, of Witney, Oxfordshire, are alleged to have "for a purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests of the state, obtained, collected, recorded, published or communicated to any other person articles, notes, documents or information which were calculated to be, might be, or were intended to be, directly or indirectly, useful to an enemy".

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Hope Rowe, 32, of Piazza Walk, Whitechapel, is accused of killing a woman who was stabbed in a foyer of a block of flats in Duckett Street, Stepney Green, in the early hours of Sunday.

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John Thomson captured Victorian street characters, such as 'Hookey Alf of Whitechapel' and the 'Mush-Fakers' of Clapham, as well as his travels to Asia.

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His photographs include Hookey Alf of Whitechapel, who wore a hook in place of the arm he lost in an industrial accident, and hung around the streets of east London looking for casual labour.

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Elizabeth line trains will also not run between Whitechapel and Stratford on Saturday.

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