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Butcher

/ˈbʊtʃ.ə(ɹ)/

A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).

📖 Definitions of "Butcher"

noun

1
A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
2
A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
3
(from butcher's hook) A look.
4
A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.

verb

1
To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.
2
To kill brutally.
3
To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.
"The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California"."

9 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
slaughternoun	(uncountable) The killing of animals, generally for food.
botchernoun	A clumsy or incompetent worker; a bungler.
bunglernoun	Someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence.
sad sacknoun	A perennial failure or victim of misfortune.
slaughterernoun	A butcher (as a profession or job).
blunderernoun	One who blunders.
fumblernoun	someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
bumblernoun	Someone who bumbles; a stumbler or blunderer.
meatmannoun	A butcher; one who prepares or sells meat.

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
slaughterernoun	A butcher (as a profession or job).
meatmannoun	A butcher; one who prepares or sells meat.
slaughternoun	(uncountable) The killing of animals, generally for food.
botchernoun	A clumsy or incompetent worker; a bungler.
bumblernoun	Someone who bumbles; a stumbler or blunderer.
blunderernoun	One who blunders.
bunglernoun	Someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence.
sad sacknoun	A perennial failure or victim of misfortune.
fumblernoun	someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
butcherynoun	The butchering of meat.
slaughterhousenoun	A place where animals are slaughtered.
beefnoun	(uncountable) The meat from cattle or other bovines.
toiletnoun	(UK, Australia, Hong Kong) A room, enclosed area or single-purpose building containing a fixture or fixtures used for urination and defecation; a bathroom or water closet.
capnoun	A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.
covernoun	A lid.
fixnoun	A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
hacknoun	A tool for chopping.
stoppernoun	Someone or something that stops something.
gatenoun	A doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
hangmannoun	(uncountable, games) A guessing game where one has to guess the word an opponent is thinking of by guessing one letter at a time, and involving the gradual drawing of a stick figure hanging from the gallows.