butcher

butcher
n
1. meat seller, meat-merchant, meat vendor, meat cutter.
2. slaughterer, mass-murderer, destroyer, liquidator, annihilator, exterminator; murderer, killer, slayer, manslayer, man-killer, homicide, Bluebeard, ripper, bloodspiller, bloodshedder, shedder-of-blood, cutthroat, executioner, executionist, Sl.Jack Ketch; scourge, fiend.
3. vendor, hawker, peddler. See vendor (def.1).
v
4.(all of meat) slaughter, chop, hack, carve, cut, trim, slice, abattage; dress, prepare.
5. slaughter, massacre, kill off, annihilate, exterminate, liquidate, decimate, destroy, cut to pieces, maul, savage, dismember, disembowel, hew, hack, hack to pieces, chop, chop to pieces, mutilate, tear limb from limb, wade in blood, put to the sword, give no quarter, show no mercy, do to death; kill, slay, murder, cut down, execute, put to death, assassinate, shed blood, spill blood.
6. bungle, botch, make a mess or hash of, bosh, muff, blunder, foul up, Sl. mess up, Sl. blow, Sl. screw up, Sl. louse up, Inf. butch, Inf. flub, Inf. gum up the works, Sl. bitch, Inf. bollix.

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