plural butchers
plural butchers
Learner's definition of BUTCHER
[count]
1
a : someone who cuts and sells meat in a shop肉贩;卖肉的人
b : someone who kills animals and prepares their meat to be eaten屠夫;屠宰牲口的人
2
: a shop that sells meat肉铺;肉店 3
: someone who kills a lot of people or animals in a brutal or cruel way刽子手 4
informal : someone who does something very roughly and badly笨蛋;莽夫
have/take a butcher's
British, informal
: to look at something看看;瞧瞧 2 butcher /ˈbʊtʃɚ/ verb
butchers; butchered; butchering
butchers; butchered; butchering
Learner's definition of BUTCHER
[+ object]
1
: to kill (an animal) and prepare its meat for sale屠宰 2
: to kill (people or animals) in a brutal and cruel way屠杀;杀戮 3
informal : to do (something) very badly : to make a mess of (something)弄糟;糟蹋