" butchers "

 [ "butchers" ]

1: Cockney rhyming slang for look (butchers hook)

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

 [ "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. 

 [ "butchers" ]

1: Rhyming slang - Butchers hook, meaning look

  * e.g.,  ... Here let's have a butchers at that! (notso commonly - 'Here let's have a butchers hook at that!) 

 [ "butchers" ]

1: a place where they chop up dead animals

  * e.g.,  ... i'm going to get some beef from the butchers 

 [ "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. 

 [ "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? 

 [ "a butcher's" ]

1: Cockney rhyming slang -- a butcher's hook, rhymes with look. The slang gets trickey in use as it is usually truncated. Apples and pears becomes apples, but refers to stairs.

  * e.g.,  ... I went and had a butcher's at that new café 

 [ "Butcher" ]

1: The best person you will ever meet. Amogus addicted.

  * e.g.,  ... A Butcher is not a human?