English Dictionary

butcher

/ˈbʊtʃ.ə(ɹ)/

noun

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.

The butcher sells fresh meat.

意味（1）

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

He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days...

意味（2）

(figuratively) A brutal or indiscriminate killer.

Butcher of an innocent child.

意味（3）

(Cockney rhyming slang, from butcher's hook) A look.

意味（4）

(informal, obsolete) A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.