butcher
IPA: bˈʊtʃɝ
noun
- A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
- (figurative) A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
- (Cockney rhyming slang, from butcher's hook) A look.
- (informal, obsolete) A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.
- (colloquial, archaic, card games) A king playing card.
- A surname originating as an occupation for a butcher.
verb
- (transitive) To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.
- (intransitive) To work as a butcher.
- (transitive) To kill brutally.
- (transitive) To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.
- (transitive) To mess up hopelessly; to botch; to distort beyond recognition.
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Examples of "butcher" in Sentences
- His dad is a butcher in the town.
- This mongrel sold you out to the butcher.
- Only a butcher survived from the sinking ship.
- Butcher's Choice Hamburgers Sicken 5 in Canada.
- Chaz Butcher is the name of the guy in the band.
- The butcher separated pigskin with the actual meat.
- They are the professional butchers of the Kashmir valley.
- Aurelian is the patron of the guild of butchers in Limoges.
- Butcher retreated to the wilderness for solace and restoration.
- The Butcher trade helped the Canucks but cost Butcher's new team dearly.