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   butcher

   /ˈbʊtʃə/

   noun

   • 1. a person whose trade is cutting up and selling meat in a shop. Similar meat sellermeat merchantmeat traderslaughtererslaughtermanarchaic:flesher
   • ▪ a person who slaughters and cuts up animals for food: "a pork butcher" Similar meat sellermeat merchantmeat traderslaughtererslaughtermanarchaic:flesher
   • ▪ a person who kills people indiscriminately or brutally. Similar murderermass murdererslaughtererkillerassassinserial killerhomicidal maniacdestroyerterminatorliquidatorliterary:slayerdated:cut-throathomicide
   • 2. a person selling refreshments, newspapers, etc. on a train or in a theatre. informal North American

   verb

   • 1. slaughter or cut up (an animal) for food. Similar slaughtercut upcarve upslice upjointpreparedress
   • ▪ kill (a person or people) indiscriminately or brutally: "they rounded up and butchered 250 people" Similar massacremurderslaughterkillput to deathdispatchdispose ofdestroyexterminateliquidateeliminateterminateassassinateput to the swordcut downcut to piecesliterary:slay
   • ▪ ruin (something) deliberately or through incompetence: "the film was butchered by the studio that released it" Similar spoilruinmarmutilatemanglecut aboutmess upmake a mess ofwreckinformal:murdermake a hash ofmuck upscrew uplouse up

   Word Origin Middle English: from an Anglo-Norman French variant of Old French bochier, from boc ‘he-goat’, probably of the same ultimate origin as buck1.

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   What does a butcher do?

   • The butcher hacked off a large chunk of meat. The butcher prepared a rack of pork. He raises pigs and butchers his own meat. This is where farmers brought their livestock to be butchered. The truck was transporting freshly butchered chickens. He butchered thousands of people. Unarmed civilians are being butchered by the occupying forces.

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   What is a butcher verb?

   • Definition of butcher verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary butcher somebody to kill people in a very cruel and violent way butcher something to kill animals and cut them up for use as meat Topics Farming c2 butcher something (especially North American English) to make something less good or successful by doing it very badly

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   What does Bocher mean in English?

   • From Middle English bocher, boucher, from Old French bouchier (“goat slaughterer”), from Old French bouc (“goat”), from Medieval Latin buccus (“he-goat”), of Germanic origin. More at English buck. butcher (plural butchers) A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).

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   What does 'Butcher' mean in slang?

   • Butcher' is a British English slang term derived from 'butcher's hook'. It means 'look'. This phrase comes from rhyming slang, in which 'butcher's hook' stands for 'look'. For example, 'Come over here and have a butcher's at this!'

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   butcher something (especially North American English) to make something less good or successful by doing it very badly. The script was good, but those guys butchered it.

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    someone who prepares and sells meat. (Definition of butcher from the Cambridge Essential Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)