butchery
IPA: bˈʊtʃɝi
noun
- The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as at a slaughterhouse.
- (rare) An abattoir, a slaughterhouse.
- The butchering of meat.
- A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure.
- A meat market
- (slang) The stereotypical behaviors and accoutrements of being a butch lesbian.
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Examples of "butchery" in Sentences
- The major butchery is yet to come.
- It was a butchery at its worst form.
- This is a butchery, not an improvement.
- But that is even a butchery of the French.
- Sausages are a result of economical butchery.
- To persecute for butchery, go find a butcher.
- They were slaughtered like cows in a butchery.
- The site was in the open and used for butchery.