Butcher (Surrey cricketer)
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



  1. A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
  2. A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
    Weyler was referred to as a "Butcher" by yellow journalists.
  3. (Cockney rhyming slang, via butcher's hook) A look.
  4. A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses , etc. (old, informal).

Verb



  1. To slaughter animals and prepare meat for market.
  2. To kill brutally.
  3. To ruin something, often to the point of defamation.
    The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California".
 
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