butcher
butch·er / ˈboŏchər/ • n. 1. a person whose trade is cutting up and selling meat in a shop. ∎ a person who slaughters and cuts up animals for food: a pork butcher. ∎ a person who kills or has people killed indiscriminately or brutally: the Nazi death camp butcher.2. inf. a person selling refreshments, newspapers, and other items on a train or in a stadium or theater.• v. [tr.] (often be butchered) slaughter or cut up (an animal) for food: the meat will be butchered for the local market. ∎ kill (someone) brutally: they butchered 250 people. ∎ fig. ruin (something) deliberately or through incompetence: the film was butchered by the studio that released it.
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