butcher

butchers butchered butchering
Noun
1. a retailer of meat
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2. a brutal indiscriminate murderer
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3. a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market
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4. someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
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Verb
1. kill (animals) usually for food consumption; "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"
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