butcher

UK /ˈbʊt͡ʃə/ US /ˈbʊt͡ʃə/
noun 5verb 5name 1

Definitions

noun

1

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...

2

A brutal or indiscriminate killer.

Butcher of an innocent child.

3

A look.

4

A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.

5

A king playing card.

verb

1

To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.

2

To work as a butcher.

He tells me he now earns three times as much as he did butchering.

3

To kill brutally.

4

To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.

The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California".

5

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

1

A surname originating as an occupation for a butcher.

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