butcher

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[edit] Etymology

From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman boucher, from Old French bouchier (goat slaughterer), from bouc (goat), of Germanic origin. More at buck.

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butcher (plural butchers)

  1. A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
  2. A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
    Weyler was referred to as a "Butcher" by yellow journalists.
  3. (Cockney rhyming slang, via butcher's hook) A look.
  4. A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses , etc. (old, informal).

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[edit] Verb

butcher (third-person singular simple present butchers, present participle butchering, simple past and past participle butchered)

  1. (transitive) To slaughter animals and prepare meat for market.
  2. (transitive) To kill brutally.
  3. (transitive) To ruin something, often to the point of defamation.
    The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California".

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