butcher

Definition:
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.
5. Kill (animals) usually for food consumption.

Use 'butcher' in a sentence:

• 1. The butcher gave us overweight on the meat.
• 2. You're simply butchering the French language the way you speak.
• 3. Over 500 dogs being delivered to a butcher house were saved by a Chinese animal protection organization.
• 4. One butcher does not fear many sheep.
• 5. He was as great a butcher as the world has been.
• 6. Klaus Barbie was known in France as the Butcher of Lyon.
• 7. Guards butchered 1,350 prisoners.
• 8. Cuisine Minceur version, whatever the butcher may say, veal and beef should be cooked "naked".
• 9. It's the lunatic fringe of the Animal Liberation Front which smashes the windows of butchers' shops, not ordinary members like us.
• 10. The lawyer, without a word, writes the butcher a check for$ 8. 50.
• 11. He is a butcher by trade.
• 12. That was a butcher.
• 13. It's about music, which is too good for the butcher.
• 14. The milkman came daily, the grocer, the butcher, the baker, and the ice-cream man delivered two or three times a week.
• 15. Talk about books with a teacher, and talk about pigs with a butcher.
• 16. The play was butchered beyond recognition.
• 17. He butchered the pig with a small sharp knife.
• 18. He found what he seemed to want--a rusty old butcher knife and a whetstone.
• 19. Last to come was the butcher.
• 20. The butcher was so pleased, spittle ran from his mouth.
• 21. The warlords butchered the strikers.
• 22. The butcher smelt her fragrance.
• 23. They butchered the war prisoners.
• 24. The butcher let out a howl.
• 25. Liu Hulan unflinchingly faced death under the butcher's knife of the enemy.
• 26. The butcher stood outside the tailor's old house.
• 27. My grandfather was a butcher.
• 28. Joe Biggs was a butcher.
• 29. The Butcher family of Southampton, UK, wouldn't say so.
• 30. A butcher, I gather.
• 31. It's about the music, which is too good to butcher.
• 32. Butcher paper on the walls is good, too.
• 33. 'What have you done?' shrieked the butcher.
• 34. I bought the meat at the new butcher's.
• 35. Ask the butcher for soup bones ( marrow bones are best).
• 36. The butcher weighed the meat on the scales.
• 37. The invaders butchered their way in.
• 38. Several periods of time later the butcher opens the mail and finds an envelopes from the lawyer:$ 20 due for a consultation2.
• 39. Why didn’t you have the butcher cut off the end?
• 40. A butcher needs sharp knives.
• 41. The tailor has butchered my suit.
• 42. Before, it was like a butcher place where they cut the cows and pigs and everything.
• 43. Luckily a butcher soon came by, driving a pig in a wheelbarrow.
• 44. The butcher sells meat.
• 45. "What have you done?" shrieked the butcher.
• 46. She seized hold of the butcher and reached up to kiss him.
• 47. When the butcher turned round, he missed the meat at once, and charged them with having stolen it: but the one who had taken it said he hadn't taken it.
• 48. BUTCHER: Do you want any meat today, Mrs. Bird?
• 49. Her husband is a fat butcher.
• 50. The butcher trusted them for the meat.
• 51. Our people are being butchered in their homes.
• 52. Look on the label or ask your butcher.
• 53. Pigs were butchered, hams were hung to dry from the ceiling.
• 54. The butcher struck off a chop.
• 55. Butchers recommend cooking meat with the fat and trimming it away later.
• 56. The script was good, but those guys butchered it.
• 57. A giant wildcat is being hunted after 58 lambs were butchered.
• 58. Policemen, bankers and butchers are all lumped together in the service sector.
• 59. The animals are herded into a bay, then butchered.