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In some senses, butcher is marked as figuratively, slang, informal, obsolete, archaic. Watch for register when choosing this word.
noun
A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days...
A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
Butcher of an innocent child.
A look.
A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.
A king playing card.
verb
To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.
To work as a butcher.
He tells me he now earns three times as much as he did butchering.
To kill brutally.
To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.
The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California".
To mess up hopelessly; to botch; to distort beyond recognition.
I am bad at pronouncing names, so my apologies if I butcher any of your names.
name
A surname originating as an occupation for a butcher.