what does butcher mean?
BUTCHER as NOUN
- Meaning
- someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
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- Meaning
- a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market
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- Meaning
- a brutal indiscriminate murderer
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BUTCHER as VERB
- Meaning
- kill (animals) usually for food consumption
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- They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter
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