BUTCHER
Dictionary entry overview: What does butcher mean?
• BUTCHER (noun)
The noun BUTCHER has 4 senses:
1. a retailer of meat
2. a brutal indiscriminate murderer
3. a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market
4. someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
Familiarity information: BUTCHER used as a noun is uncommon.
• BUTCHER (verb)
The verb BUTCHER has 1 sense:
1. kill (animals) usually for food consumption
Familiarity information: BUTCHER used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BUTCHER (noun)
Meaning:
A retailer of meat
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
butcher; meatman
Hypernyms ("butcher" is a kind of...):
merchandiser; merchant (a businessperson engaged in retail trade)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "butcher"):
pork butcher (a vendor of pork and products made from pork)
Meaning:
A brutal indiscriminate murderer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("butcher" is a kind of...):
liquidator; manslayer; murderer (a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being))
Meaning:
A person who slaughters or dresses meat for market
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
slaughterer; butcher
Hypernyms ("butcher" is a kind of...):
skilled worker; skilled workman; trained worker (a worker who has acquired special skills)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "butcher"):
knacker (someone who buys up old horses for slaughter)
Meaning:
Someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
blunderer; botcher; bumbler; bungler; fuckup; fumbler; sad sack; stumbler; butcher
Hypernyms ("butcher" is a kind of...):
incompetent; incompetent person (someone who is not competent to take effective action)
• BUTCHER (verb)
Meaning:
Kill (animals) usually for food consumption
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
butcher; slaughter
Context example:
They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter
Hypernyms (to "butcher" is one way to...):
kill (cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly)
"Butcher" entails doing...:
cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "butcher"):
chine (cut through the backbone of an animal)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Sentence example:
They want to butcher the prisoners
