Butcher

Quick meaning: Butcher is a noun meaning A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).

Meaning

A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).

More Meanings

1. (figurative) A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
2. (Cockney rhyming slang, from butcher's hook) A look.
3. (informal, obsolete) A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.
4. (colloquial, archaic, card games) A king playing card.
5. (transitive) To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.
6. (intransitive) To work as a butcher.
7. (transitive) To kill brutally.

Example Sentences

Butcher of an innocent child.

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

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

I am bad at pronouncing names, so my apologies if I butcher any of your names.

Word Forms

• butchers
• butchering
• butchered

Synonyms for butcher

Depending on context, synonyms include flesher, slayer, mayhemist, kill, slaughter, massacre.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include slaughterer, meatman, slaughter, botcher, bumbler, blunderer.

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