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    [Noun]  | "butch*er" | \ ˈbu̇-chər \


    1: a person who slaughters animals or dresses their flesh

    2: a dealer in meat

    3: one that kills ruthlessly or brutally


    Origin: 13th century ;

     Middle English bocher, from Anglo-French, from buc he-goat, probably of Celtic origin; akin to Middle Irish bocc he-goat {mat|buck:1|};

    [Noun]  | "butch*er-bird" | \ ˈbu̇-chər-ˌbərd \


    1: any of various shrikes


    Origin: 1668 ;

    [Noun]  | "butcher block" 


    1: a block made with thick strips of usually laminated hardwood


    Origin: 1944 ;

    [Noun]  | "butcher paper" 


    1: heavy brown or white paper used especially for wrapping meats


    Origin: 1896 ;

    [Verb]  | "butcher" 


    1: to slaughter and dress for market

    2: to kill in a barbarous manner

    3: botch


    Origin: 1562 ;

    [Adjective]  | "butch" | \ ˈbu̇ch \


    1: notably or deliberately masculine in appearance or manner

    2: closely cropped


    Origin: 1939 ;

     Probably from Butch, male nickname;

    [Idiom]  | "have/take a butcher's" 


    1: to look at something

    [Noun]  | "butcher" 


    1: someone who bungles an effort;


      * e.g., " ... the newest intern on the campaign is a butcher when it comes to writing press releases "



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    [Verb]  | "butcher" 


    1: to kill on a large scale;


      * e.g., " ... the barbarians butchered the monks in the monasteries without mercy "



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    2: to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way;


      * e.g., " ... the new piano student butchered the sonatina "



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     [ "butcher" ]

    1: the ultimate female pimp. This is a woman who plays men like a deck of cards. She will love you and leave you and is proud to say so. She will not be knocked down with words like slut or whore usually by rigid people who don't understand the concept of women liking sex.... she is a butcher...and enjoys meat. Can also be used as a verb to butch meaning to get with a guy tonight

      * e.g.,  ... example 1 " what did you do last night?" "i butchered some meat" " oh holla girl you are the ultimate butcher" 

     [ "butcher" ]

    1: Very heavy period, menstruation

      * e.g.,  ... I'd love to go swimming, but the butcher is visiting. 

     [ "butcher" ]

    1: when your fucking a girl for the first time and her vagina bleeds, so you gather up the blood and put it on sandwhich meat and cut it then eat it.

      * e.g.,  ... andy- she was a virgin so i decided to do a good old fashion butcher 

     [ "butcher" ]

    1: a scrub that loves men, i mean its like CRAZY. You cannot be cool with butchers...

      * e.g.,  ... dude that kis is a butcher 

     [ "butchering" ]

    1: To butcher - To not do justice to the original work or enactment.

      * e.g.,  ... "Dude, he's totally butchering it the song !" 

     [ "The Butcher" ]

    1: an amazing and sexy drummer from the band The Academy is...

      * e.g.,  ... "It's Freakin Scooter time!" said The Butcher. 

     [ "butchers" ]

    1: Cockney rhyming slang for look (butchers hook)

      * e.g.,  ... have a butchers at this for me 

     [ "butchered" ]

    1: (past participle)

      * e.g.,  ... I'm never using those those manufacturers again -- They completely butchered the design.  


     [ "butchered" ]

    2: When a task has been performed to a deplorable standard.

      * e.g.,  ... (They changed my design to an unrecoverable extent)  


     [ "butchered" ]

    3: When something has been damaged completely.

      * e.g.,  ... My answer *should* be right.. ..unless of-course I've butchered the working somewhere...  


     [ "butchered" ]

    4: Synonymous with: ruined, messed up, slaughtered, botched, bungled

      * e.g.,  ... (My answer should be correct unless I've made a mistake in my working to the problem)  

     [ "butcher's" ]

    1: In cockney rhyming slang, to "have a butcher's" means to have a look, from the rhyming slang "butcher's hook".

      * e.g.,  ... Let's have a buthcer's around the grounds then, shall we? 

     [ "butchers" ]

    1: An adaptation of the cockney Rhyming Slang "Bucthers Hook" (to look) made by locals from the Isle of Wight, England. In this case it's been used to discribe petty persistent criminals or a crook, hence the Butchers bit (butchers hook - crook).Beleived to have started primarily in the West of the Island in the early 1980's. Then went on to pervade the island and some parts of the near mainland. Now it is used to describe any Kind of criminal activity from torching a car to burglary and shoplifting.

      * e.g.,  ... Oii nipper did you read about butchers in the paper. Been caught shopliftling again. 

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