butcher

[Butch·er]

The person whose job it is to cut up and sell meat is called a butcher. Your grandmother might go to the butcher once a week to buy pork chops.

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One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food.

Noun
someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence

Noun
a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market

Noun
a brutal indiscriminate murderer

Noun
a retailer of meat

Verb
kill (animals) usually for food consumption; "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"

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n.
One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food.

n.
A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle.

v. t.
To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs.

v. t.
To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner.

Butcher

Butch"er , n. [OE. bochere, bochier, OF. bochier, F. boucher, orig., slaughterer of buck goats, fr. OF. boc, F. bouc, a buck goat; of German or Celtic origin. See Buck the animal.] 1. One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food. 2. A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle. "Butcher of an innocent child." Shak. Butcher bird (Zo'94l.), a species of shrike of the genus Lanius. &hand; The Lanius excubitor is the common butcher bird of Europe. In England, the bearded tit is sometimes called the lesser butcher bird. The American species are L.borealis, or northernbutcher bird, and L. Ludovicianus or loggerhead shrike. The name butcher birdis derived from its habit of suspending its prey impaled upon thorns, after killing it. Butcher's meat, such flesh of animals slaughtered for food as is sold for that purpose by butchers, as beef, mutton, lamb, and pork.

Butcher

Butch"er, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Butchered ; p. pr. & vb.n. Butchering.] 1. To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs. 2. To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner. Macaulay.

[Ithocles] was murdered, rather butchered.

One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food.

To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs.

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Usage Examples

My dad was a master butcher and I trained to be a butcher when I left school. I didn't enjoy it at the time but I love cooking now, so perhaps I would have been a chef.

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Other Usage Examples

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.