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butchers

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noun

  • A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
  • A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
  • (from butcher's hook) A look.
  • A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.

verb

  • To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.
  • To kill brutally.
  • To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.

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

noun

  • A butcher’s shop
  • A look (short form of butcher's hook)

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