butcher

noun

1. A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).

   “He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days...”

2. (figuratively)A brutal or indiscriminate killer.

   “Butcher of an innocent child.”

3. (Cockney, slang)A look.
4. (informal, obsolete)A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.
5. (archaic, colloquial)A king playing card.

verb

1. (transitive)To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.
2. (intransitive)To work as a butcher.

   “He tells me he now earns three times as much as he did butchering.”

3. (transitive)To kill brutally.
4. (transitive)To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.

   “The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California".”

5. (transitive)To mess up hopelessly; to botch; to distort beyond recognition.

   “I am bad at pronouncing names, so my apologies if I butcher any of your names.”

adj

1. (comparative, form-of)comparative form of butch: more butch

   “Weaver and Shaw dance together and almost immediately another butch, an even butcher butch (Leslie Feinberg), cuts in to dance with Shaw (though Shaw would kill me if she heard me call someone a butcher butch).”

name

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