Butcher

  1. Proper noun.  (surname, A An) for a butcher.
  2. Noun.  A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
  3. Noun.  A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
  4. Noun.  (Cockney rhyming slang, via ''butcher's hook'') A look.
  5. Noun.  A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses , etc. (old, informal).
  6. Verb.  (transitive) To slaughter animals and prepare meat for market.
  7. Verb.  (transitive) To kill brutally.
  8. Verb.  (transitive) To ruin something, often to the point of defamation.

This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.

This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.