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Meaning of butchers

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

butchers

noun

Definitions

  1. A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).

  2. A brutal or indiscriminate killer.

  3. (from butcher's hook) A look.

  4. A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.

verb

Definitions

  1. To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.

    Synonyms:killslaughter

  2. To kill brutally.

    Synonyms:massacreslay

  3. To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.

    Example: The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California".

    Synonyms:murder

noun

Definitions

  1. A butcher’s shop

  2. A look (short form of butcher's hook)

Sources:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/butcherhttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/butcher'shttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/butchers

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