1. (

• butcher ,
• meatman

) a retailer of meat ;

2. (

• butcher ,

) a brutal indiscriminate murderer ;

3. (

• butcher ,
• slaughterer

) a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market ;

4. (

• bungler ,
• blunderer ,
• fumbler ,
• bumbler ,
• stumbler ,
• sad_sack ,
• botcher ,
• butcher ,
• fuckup

) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence ;

1. (

• butcher ,
• slaughter

) kill (animals) usually for food consumption; "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter" ;