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butcher

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Noun

  1. A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
  2. A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
  3. A look.
  4. A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.
  5. A king playing card.

Verb

  1. To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.
  2. To work as a butcher.
  3. To kill brutally.
  4. To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.
  5. To mess up hopelessly; to botch; to distort beyond recognition.

Adjective

  1. comparative form of butch: more butch

Proper noun

  1. A surname originating as an occupation for a butcher.

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