A hook used by a butcher for hanging carcasses or meat. / (Cockney rhyming slang, singular only) Synonym of butcher's

The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as at a slaughterhouse. / (rare) An abattoir, a slaughterhouse. / The butchering of meat. / A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure. / A meat market

(slang) The stereotypical behaviors and accoutrements of being a butch lesbian.

simple past tense and past participle of butcher

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

present participle of butcher

The act by which someone or something is butchered; a slaughter or killing.

plural of butcherbird

Any of the magpie-like birds in the genus Cracticus, family Artamidae, of Australia and New Guinea. / (US) Any of the shrikes in the genus Lanius. / (South Africa) The fiscal shrike, Lanius collaris.

plural of butchery