butcher
2 ENTRIES FOUND:
plural
butchers
plural
butchers
Britannica Dictionary definition of BUTCHER
[count]
1
a
:
someone who cuts and sells meat in a shop
b
:
someone who kills animals and prepares their meat to be eaten
2
:
a shop that sells meat
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The town was small but had a grocery store and a butcher (store/shop).
3
:
someone who kills a lot of people or animals in a brutal or cruel way
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They are a bunch of butchers [=murderers] who gained power by slaughtering their enemies.
4
informal
:
someone who does something very roughly and badly
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That surgeon is a butcher! [=a terrible surgeon]
have/take a butcher's
British, informal
:
to look at something
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This may be what we need. Have a butcher's.
2
butcher
/ˈbʊtʃɚ/
verb
butchers;
butchered;
butchering
2
butcher
/ˈbʊtʃɚ/
verb
butchers;
butchered;
butchering
Britannica Dictionary definition of BUTCHER
[+ object]
1
:
to kill (an animal) and prepare its meat for sale
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They've hired someone to butcher the hogs.
2
:
to kill (people or animals) in a brutal and cruel way
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Many innocent people were butchered under his regime.
3
informal
:
to do (something) very badly
:
to make a mess of (something)
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The band has butchered my favorite song.
