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| butch·er [ bchər ] |
noun (plural butch·ers) |
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1. meat seller: somebody who sells meat at retail
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2. slaughterer: somebody who slaughters animals for their meat
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3. commerce premises of butcher: a store that sells prepared raw meat and meat products
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4. brutal killer: somebody who kills people in a brutal manner
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5. inexpert proponent of something: somebody who does something badly and produces unattractive results
  a butcher of the sonnet form
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transitive verb (past and past participle butch·ered, present participle butch·er·ing, 3rd person present singular butch·ers) |
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1. kill animal for food: to slaughter and prepare the meat of an animal for food
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2. kill people brutally: to kill people in a brutal way
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3. botch something: to do something badly and produce unattractive results
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informal
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The original script had been butchered.
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| [13th century. < Anglo-Norman form of Old French bo(u)chier "slaughterer of he-goats" < boc "he-goat"] |
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