butcher
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Is butcher a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (figurative) A brutal or indiscriminate killer.Examples: "Butcher of an innocent child."Synonyms: carnager, mayhemistfiguratively
2. (Cockney rhyming slang, from butcher's hook) A look.Cockneyslang
3. (informal, obsolete) A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.informalobsolete
4. (colloquial, archaic, card games) A king playing card.archaiccolloquial
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.Synonyms: kill, slaughtertransitive
2. (intransitive) To work as a butcher.Examples: "He tells me he now earns three times as much as he did butchering."intransitive
3. (transitive) To kill brutally.Synonyms: massacre, slaytransitive
4. (transitive) To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.Examples: "The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California"."Synonyms: murdertransitive
5. (transitive) To mess up hopelessly; to botch; to distort beyond recognition.Examples: "I am bad at pronouncing names, so my apologies if I butcher any of your names."Synonyms: debase, bastardizetransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary