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| 1. | [ verb ] kill (animals) usually for food consumption | |
| Synonyms: | slaughter | |
| Examples: | "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter" |
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| Related terms: | kill chine butchery abattoir cut | |
| 2. | [ noun ] (work) a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market | |
| Synonyms: | slaughterer | |
| Related terms: | skilled_worker knacker | |
| 3. | [ noun ] (work,business) a retailer of meat | |
| Synonyms: | meatman | |
| Related terms: | merchant pork_butcher | |
| 4. | [ noun ] (law,criminal law) a brutal indiscriminate murderer | |
| Related terms: | murderer | |
| 5. | [ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 1546 | |
| 6. | [ noun ] someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | |
| Synonyms: | blunderer fumbler bumbler sad_sack botcher fuckup stumbler bungler | |
| Related terms: | incompetent botch sin | |
| Similar spelling: |
butchery butcherly butchering botcher Betcher bitchery |
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