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Meaning of Piccadilly butcher | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A member of the regiment of Horse Guards, or "Royal Blues".

UK, derogatory, obsolete, slang

Examples

“The mob in the meantime holloaed out, "No Corn Bill!" While they were proceeding in this manner, a cry was raised that "the Piccadilly butchers were coming."”

“"In 1810, my father very nearly had his head cloven by a Piccadilly butcher when merely looking on to see Sir Francis Burdett taken to the tower."”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

Piccadilly Circus Piccadilly weeper Piccadilly weepers piccage piccalilli piccanin