| Definitions | | butcher |
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noun
- A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
- A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
- (Cockney rhyming slang, via butcher's hook) A look.
- A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses , etc. (old, informal).
Translations: - Dutch: slager
- French: boucher
- German: Metzger , Schlachter , Fleischer
- Italian: macellaio
- Spanish: carnicero , carnicera
verb
- (transitive) To slaughter animals and prepare meat for market.
- (transitive) To kill brutally.
- (transitive) To ruin something, often to the point of defamation.
- The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California".
Translations: - Dutch: slachten
- French: abattre
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- Italian: rovinare
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