butcher |
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1. n. A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals). | |
2. n. (figurative) A brutal or indiscriminate killer. | |
3. n. (Cockney rhyming slang) A look. | |
4. n. (informal, obsolete) A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc. | |
5. v. To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market. | |
6. v. To kill brutally. | |
7. v. To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation. | |
The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California". | |
8. adj. comparative form of butch: more butch | |