Butcher

Definitions

1. A surname originating as an occupation for a butcher.
2. A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
3. A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
   figuratively
4. A look.
   Cockney, slang
5. A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.
   informal, obsolete
6. A king playing card.
   archaic, colloquial

Equivalents

Examples

“He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days...”

“Butcher of an innocent child.”

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