Butcher
WordNet
noun
(1) Someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
(2) A person who slaughters or dresses meat for market
(3) A brutal indiscriminate murderer
(4) A retailer of meat
verb
(5) Kill (animals) usually for food consumption
"They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"
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Etymology
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Noun
- A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
- A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
- Weyler was referred to as a "Butcher" by yellow journalists.
- (Cockney rhyming slang, via butcher's hook) A look.
- A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses , etc. (old, informal).
Verb
- To slaughter animals and prepare meat for market.
- To kill brutally.
- To ruin something, often to the point of defamation.
- The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California".