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Whitechapel
[ hwahyt-chap-uhl, wahyt- ]
noun
- a district in E London, England.
Whitechapel
/ ˈɲɪˌʃæə /
noun
- billiards the act of potting one's opponent's white ball
Word History and Origins
Origin of Whitechapel1
Example Sentences
They took a taxi to Whitechapel and bought a tent from Argos, then, with the intention of trying to go abroad despite not having their passports, they attempted to get to Plymouth by taxi.
Robert Hudson, from Leyton, east London, started his career in December 1964 - aged 16 – as a messenger in the Whitechapel Delivery Office distributing telegrams.
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".
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.
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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