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What does butcher mean?

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Noun
  1. A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
  2. (figuratively) A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
  3. (Cockney rhyming slang) A look.
  4. (informal, obsolete) A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.
  2. (transitive) To kill brutally.
  3. (transitive) To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.
Adjective
  1. comparative form of butch: more butch
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