butcher
boo cher
- n a retailer of meat
- n a brutal indiscriminate murderer
- n a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market
- n someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
- v kill (animals) usually for food consumption
- s used of men; markedly masculine in appearance or manner
- s (of male or female homosexuals) characterized by stereotypically male traits or appearance
- Italian headline writers found a welcoming name for 54-year-old Soviet Polit-burocrat Mikhail Suslov: "The Butcher of Budapest.
- It sounds like a recurring nightmare: an armed male intruder breaks into a women's dorm and with a gun and a butcher's knife, binds and gags all the residents.
- Omar is a butcher, with sinewy forearms, a black mustache and sad, dark eyes.