"butchers" 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
"butchers" in the verb sense
1. butcher, slaughter
kill (animals) usually for food consumption
"They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"
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