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Meaning of butcher knife

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butcher

Pronunciation:/ˈbʊtʃ.ə(ɹ)//ˈbʊt͡ʃ.ɚ/

noun

Definitions

A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
(from butcher's hook) A look.
A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.

verb

Definitions

To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.
Synonyms:killslaughter
To kill brutally.
Synonyms:massacreslay
To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.
Example: The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California".
Synonyms:murder

Sources:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/butcher

butcher

Pronunciation:/ˈbʊtʃ.ə(ɹ)//ˈbʊt͡ʃ.ɚ/

adjective

Definitions

(originally Polari) Very masculine, with a masculine appearance or attitude.

Sources:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/butch https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/butcher