ALL meanings of butcher
butch·er
B b - countable noun butcher A butcher is a shopkeeper who cuts up and sells meat. Some butchers also kill animals for meat and make foods such as sausages and meat pies. 3
- countable noun butcher A butcher or a butcher's is a shop where meat is sold. 3
- verb butcher To butcher an animal means to kill it and cut it up for meat. 3
- countable noun butcher You can refer to someone as a butcher when they have killed a lot of people in a very cruel way, and you want to express your horror and disgust. 3
- verb butcher You can say that someone has butchered people when they have killed a lot of people in a very cruel way, and you want to express your horror and disgust. 3
- noun butcher a retailer of meat 3
- noun butcher a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market 3
- noun butcher an indiscriminate or brutal murderer 3
- noun butcher a person who destroys, ruins, or bungles something 3
- verb butcher to slaughter or dress (animals) for meat 3
- verb butcher to kill indiscriminately or brutally 3
- verb butcher to make a mess of; botch; ruin 3
- noun butcher a person whose work is killing animals or dressing their carcasses for meat 3
- noun butcher a person who cuts up meat for sale 3
- noun butcher anyone who kills as if slaughtering animals 3
- noun butcher a person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theaters, trains, circuses, etc. 3
- verb transitive butcher to kill or dress (animals) for meat 3
- verb transitive butcher to kill (people, game, etc.) brutally, senselessly, or in large numbers; slaughter 3
- verb transitive butcher to mess up; botch 3
- noun butcher person who prepares meat 1
- noun butcher meat shop, department 1
- transitive verb butcher animal: slaughter 1
- transitive verb butcher person: kill 1
- transitive verb butcher perform badly 1
- abbreviation BUTCHER botch 1
- noun butcher murderer 1
- noun butcher butch haircut. 1
- noun butcher Slang. a lesbian, especially one notably masculine in manner or appearance. 1
- verb with object butcher to slaughter or dress (animals, fish, or poultry) for market. 1
- verb with object butcher to kill indiscriminately or brutally. 1
- verb with object butcher to bungle; botch: to butcher a job. 1
- adjective butcher Slang. (of a girl or woman) having traits of personality, dress, behavior, or appearance usually associated with males. (of a male) decidedly or exaggeratedly masculine in manner or appearance. 1
- noun butcher A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals). 0
- noun butcher (by extension) A brutal or indiscriminate killer. 0
- noun butcher (Cockney rhyming slang, from butcher's hook) A look. 0
- noun butcher (Informal) OBS A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc. 0
- verb butcher (Transitive Verb) To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market. 0
- verb butcher (Transitive Verb) To kill brutally. 0
- verb butcher (Transitive Verb) To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation. 0
- adjective butcher comparative form of butch: more butch. 0