| Noun | 1. | butcher - a retailer of meat | |
| 2. | butcher - a brutal indiscriminate murdererliquidator, manslayer, murderer - a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being) | |
| 3. | butcher - a person who slaughters or dresses meat for marketknacker - someone who buys up old horses for slaughter | |
| 4. | butcher - someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | |
| Verb | 1. | butcher - kill (animals) usually for food consumption; "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"chine - cut through the backbone of an animal kill - cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly; "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays" | |