Definition of butcher Butcher

/bʊˈʧɚ/ - [bucher] - butch•er

We found 21 definitions of butcher from 8 different sources.

What does butcher mean?

Noun Plural: butchers
butcher - a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market
		slaughterer
		skilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker a worker who has acquired special skills
butcher - a retailer of meat
		meatman
		merchandiser, merchant a businessperson engaged in retail trade
butcher - a brutal indiscriminate murderer
butcher - someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
		bungler, blunderer, fumbler, bumbler, stumbler, sad sack, botcher, fuckup
		incompetent, incompetent person someone who is not competent to take effective action
Verb butchers, butchering, butchered
butcher - kill (animals) usually for food consumption; "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"
		slaughter
		cut grow through the gums; "The new tooth is cutting"
		kill destroy a vitally essential quality of or in; "Eating artichokes kills the taste of all other foods"
		chine cut through the backbone of an animal

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butcher (Noun)
A person who prepares and sells meat and sometimes also slaughters the animals.
butcher (Noun)
A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
butcher (Noun)
A look.
butcher (Noun)
A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.
butcher (Verb)
To slaughter animals and prepare meat for market.
butcher (Verb)
To kill brutally.
butcher (Verb)
To ruin something, often to the point of defamation.

butcher (n.)
One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food.
butcher (n.)
A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle.
butcher (v. t.)
To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs.
butcher (v. t.)
To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner.

butcher
booch′ėr, n. one whose business is to slaughter animals for food: one who delights in bloody deeds.—v.t. to slaughter animals for food: to put to a bloody death, to kill cruelly: (fig.) to spoil anything, as a bad actor or the like.—ns. Butch′er-bird, a shrike; Butch′ering, Butch′ing, the act of killing for food, or cruelly.—adv. Butch′erly, butcher-like, cruel, murderous.—ns. Butch′er-meat, Butch′er's-meat, the flesh of animals slaughtered by butchers, as distinguished from fish, fowls, and game; Butch′er's-broom, a genus of plants of the lily order, the common one being an evergreen shrub, a bunch of which is used by butchers for sweeping their blocks; Butch′ery, great or cruel slaughter: a slaughter-house or shambles. [O. Fr. bochier, bouchier, one who kills he-goats—boc, a he-goat; allied to Eng. Buck.]

A Butcher is person whose job is to prepare and sell meat. Some butchers also kill the animals the meat is from. Butchers also prepare sausages, and other meat-products.