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