How to pronounce “butcher”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
• (figurative) A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
• (Cockney rhyming slang, from butcher's hook) A look.
• (informal, obsolete) A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.
• (colloquial, archaic, card games) A king playing card.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.
• (intransitive) To work as a butcher.
• (transitive) To kill brutally.
• (transitive) To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.
• (transitive) To mess up hopelessly; to botch; to distort beyond recognition.
• [Adjective]
• comparative form of butch: more butch

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