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butchers' hooks

butchers' hooks is the plural of butcher's hook.

Meaning of butcher's hook

Noun

butcher's hook (plural butcher's hooks or butchers' hooks)

  1. A hook used by a butcher for hanging carcasses or meat.
  2. (Cockney, singular, singular-only, slang) Synonym of butcher's.
    Synonyms:
    butcher's

Questions about butchers' hooks

What is butchers' hooks the plural of?
Butchers' hooks is the plural of butcher's hook.

Words near butchers' hooks in the dictionary

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

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