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butchers

butchers is the plural of butcher.

butchers is the alternative form of butcher's.

butchers is the third-person singular simple present indicative of butcher.

Meaning of butcher

Noun

butcher (plural butchers)

  1. A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
    • He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days...1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in 'The House Behind the Cedars
  2. (figuratively) A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
    • Butcher of an innocent child.c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
    Synonyms:
    mayhemist
  3. (Cockney, slang) A look.
  4. (informal, obsolete) A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.
  5. (archaic, colloquial) A king playing card.

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Meaning of butcher's

Noun

butcher's (uncountable)

  1. (UK) Synonym of butchershop.
    Synonyms:
    butchershop, butcher shop, butcher’s shop
  2. (Australia, UK, slang) A look (short form of butcher's hook)
    • Gorblimey, would you ’ave a butcher’s at the bristols on this bird in the currant bun!
    Synonyms:
    dekko, gander, geek, look, squizz

Forms of butchers

pluralbutchers

Phrases with butchers

Questions about butchers

What is butchers the plural of?
Butchers is the plural of butcher.

Words near butchers in the dictionary

  1. butcherless
  2. butcherlike
  3. butcherliness
  4. butcherly
  5. butcherous
  6. butchers
  7. Butchers Ridge
  8. butchers' hooks
  9. butchers' knife
  10. butchers' knives
  11. butchers' paper

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Adapted from Wiktionary: butchers (page history and authors); butcher (page history and authors); butcher's (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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