"butcher" in the noun sense
1. butcher, meatman
a retailer of meat
2. butcher
a brutal indiscriminate murderer
3. butcher, slaughterer
a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market
4. bungler, blunderer, fumbler, bumbler, stumbler, sad sack, botcher, butcher, fuckup
someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
"butcher" in the verb sense
1. butcher, slaughter
kill (animals) usually for food consumption
"They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"
"butcher" in the adjective sense
1. butch, macho
used of men markedly masculine in appearance or manner
2. butch
of male or female homosexuals) characterized by stereotypically male traits or appearance
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