A surname originating as an occupation for a butcher.

plural of butchering

A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals). / (figuratively) A brutal or indiscriminate killer. / (Cockney rhyming slang, from butcher's hook) A look.

(transitive) To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market. / (transitive) To kill brutally. / (transitive) To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.

comparative form of butch: more butch

Alternative form of butcher's (Cockney rhyming slang).

plural of butcher

(UK) A butcher’s shop / (UK, Australia, rhyming slang) A look (short form of butcher's hook)

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of butcher

(of an animal) Taken apart professionally, as a butcher might. / (by extension) Taken apart, destroyed or (figuratively) distorted beyond recognition.