Butcher
noun
A person who kills animals and prepares their meat to be sold.
The butcher prepared a fresh cut of beef for me.
Often appears as...
- local butcher
- butcher shop
noun
A person who is very cruel or kills a lot of people.
He was a butcher on the battlefield.
Often appears as...
- butcher of people
- merciless butcher
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Disapproving
noun
A person who is very careless or does something very badly.
He butchered our chances of winning the game with his mistakes.
Often appears as...
- butcher a job
- butcher an opportunity
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Disapproving
verb
To kill animals and prepare their meat to be sold.
He learned how to butcher pigs on his family's farm.
Often appears as...
- butcher an animal
- butcher meat
verb
To do something very badly or clumsily.
She completely butchered the presentation.
Often appears as...
- butcher a job
- butcher an attempt
Usage tips
Disapproving
Colloquial
verb
To cruelly or indiscriminately kill many people.
The warlord had butchered thousands in his reign of terror.
Often appears as...
- butcher innocents
- butcher civilians
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
A person who kills animals and prepares their meat to be sold.
The butcher prepared a fresh cut of beef for me.
Often appears as...
- local butcher
- butcher shop
noun
A person who is very cruel or kills a lot of people.
He was a butcher on the battlefield.
Often appears as...
- butcher of people
- merciless butcher
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
A person who is very careless or does something very badly.
He butchered our chances of winning the game with his mistakes.
Often appears as...
- butcher a job
- butcher an opportunity
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To kill animals and prepare their meat to be sold.
He learned how to butcher pigs on his family's farm.
Often appears as...
- butcher an animal
- butcher meat
verb
To do something very badly or clumsily.
She completely butchered the presentation.
Often appears as...
- butcher a job
- butcher an attempt
Usage tips
Disapproving
Colloquial
verb
To cruelly or indiscriminately kill many people.
The warlord had butchered thousands in his reign of terror.
Often appears as...
- butcher innocents
- butcher civilians
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/2Job Specific
Refers to the profession linked with preparing meats, often seen in markets.
We get our steaks from the friendly butcher down the street.
Pro Tip 2/2Cultural Image
In some cultures, butchers are associated with artisanal skills and traditions.
The butcher displayed his award-winning sausage-making technique.
Pro Tip 1/2Job Specific
Refers to the profession linked with preparing meats, often seen in markets.
We get our steaks from the friendly butcher down the street.
Pro Tip 2/2Cultural Image
In some cultures, butchers are associated with artisanal skills and traditions.
The butcher displayed his award-winning sausage-making technique.
Pro Tip 1/2Job Specific
Refers to the profession linked with preparing meats, often seen in markets.
We get our steaks from the friendly butcher down the street.
Pro Tip 2/2Cultural Image
In some cultures, butchers are associated with artisanal skills and traditions.
The butcher displayed his award-winning sausage-making technique.
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We Are What We Eat:...
There's going to be spilling of blood. This is meat-only diet traditionally. The only thing you can maybe eat are berries in summer that is non-meat, berries and a bit of seaweed, but otherwise you survive on meat, that's all. And so it means, you're the hunter, but you're the butcher. Everybody, all the hunters they know how to butcher their meat.
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Bassam Tariq: The beauty...
my wife tasked me to cook more for us. And whenever I'd go to the local butcher to purchase some halal meat, something felt off. For those that don't know, halal is a term used for meat that is raised and slaughtered humanely following very strict Islamic guidelines.
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Types of Army Ants PIPE Ant...
skittering about their feet is one of the smaller workers lined like the others and just three millimeters long she's a general helper who can do any job from butchering to building to cleaning all three types cooperate to carry push or pull their prey along the
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Lessons from death row...
And so, he was destined to be raised by a single mom, which might have been all right except that this particular single mom was a paranoid schizophrenic, and when Will was five years old, she tried to kill him with a butcher knife.
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Aaron Huey: America's...
The holy man Black Elk, said, "I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch,
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Redefining how we use...
stickers and businesses around the city and I posted grids the blank stickers on vacant buildings and I was really amazed by the range of thoughtful responses from a butcher shop to a nursery from a
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America's native...
the holy man Black Elk said I did not know then how much was ended when I looked back now from this high hill of my old age I can still see the butchered
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Crop Circle Mystery PIPE...
crop circles appear around the world but the large majority are found in butcher a small corner of southwest England
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Ferocious Hornet Moments...
inside the defenseless young are butchered the succulent and nutritious flesh will be a massive boost
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Giant Hornets Massacre...
defenseless young are butchered the succulent and nutritious flesh will be a massive boost to the
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We Are What We Eat:...
There's going to be spilling of blood. This is meat-only diet traditionally. The only thing you can maybe eat are berries in summer that is non-meat, berries and a bit of seaweed, but otherwise you survive on meat, that's all. And so it means, you're the hunter, but you're the butcher. Everybody, all the hunters they know how to butcher their meat.
Video examples
Bassam Tariq: The beauty...
my wife tasked me to cook more for us. And whenever I'd go to the local butcher to purchase some halal meat, something felt off. For those that don't know, halal is a term used for meat that is raised and slaughtered humanely following very strict Islamic guidelines.
Video examples
Types of Army Ants PIPE Ant...
skittering about their feet is one of the smaller workers lined like the others and just three millimeters long she's a general helper who can do any job from butchering to building to cleaning all three types cooperate to carry push or pull their prey along the
Video examples
Lessons from death row...
And so, he was destined to be raised by a single mom, which might have been all right except that this particular single mom was a paranoid schizophrenic, and when Will was five years old, she tried to kill him with a butcher knife.
Video examples
Aaron Huey: America's...
The holy man Black Elk, said, "I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch,
Video examples
Redefining how we use...
stickers and businesses around the city and I posted grids the blank stickers on vacant buildings and I was really amazed by the range of thoughtful responses from a butcher shop to a nursery from a
Video examples
America's native...
the holy man Black Elk said I did not know then how much was ended when I looked back now from this high hill of my old age I can still see the butchered
Video examples
Crop Circle Mystery PIPE...
crop circles appear around the world but the large majority are found in butcher a small corner of southwest England
Video examples
Ferocious Hornet Moments...
inside the defenseless young are butchered the succulent and nutritious flesh will be a massive boost
Video examples
Giant Hornets Massacre...
defenseless young are butchered the succulent and nutritious flesh will be a massive boost to the
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Quote examples
Shirley Jones
American Actress
After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.
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Rodney Dangerfield
American Comedian
What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife.
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Tommy Cooper
British Comedian
I bought some pork chops and told the butcher to make them lean. He said, 'Which way?
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Aisha Tyler
American Actress
My dad, he was a construction worker. He was a butcher. He was a deep sea fisherman.
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Marco Pierre White
British Chef
My grandfather, father, and uncle were chefs, and my other uncle was a butcher.
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Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Iraqi Public Servant
We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them.
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Hong Chau
American Actress
Americans have a wonderful way of just butchering everyone's names.
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Carson Daly
American Entertainer
A good butcher is important to have. It's like a shrink.
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Voltaire
French Writer
Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
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Konrad Adenauer
German Statesman
Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.
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Shirley Jones
American Actress
After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.
Quote examples
Rodney Dangerfield
American Comedian
What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife.
Quote examples
Tommy Cooper
British Comedian
I bought some pork chops and told the butcher to make them lean. He said, 'Which way?
Quote examples
Aisha Tyler
American Actress
My dad, he was a construction worker. He was a butcher. He was a deep sea fisherman.
Quote examples
Marco Pierre White
British Chef
My grandfather, father, and uncle were chefs, and my other uncle was a butcher.
Quote examples
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Iraqi Public Servant
We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them.
Quote examples
Hong Chau
American Actress
Americans have a wonderful way of just butchering everyone's names.
Quote examples
Carson Daly
American Entertainer
A good butcher is important to have. It's like a shrink.
Quote examples
Voltaire
French Writer
Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
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Konrad Adenauer
German Statesman
Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.
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