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butcher's

/ ˈbʊtʃəz /

noun

  1. slang.
    a look


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Word History and Origins

Origin of butcher's1

C19: rhyming slang

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Example Sentences

Hitchcock's going on about English pork butchers and how best to prepare pork cracklings.

Not about encouraging aspiring butchers to live out their violent fantasies in Syria.

The butchers of the so-called Islamic State are stealing Hollywood techniques to make their propaganda films.

Picking on the tiger butchers is more likely to gain public support.

The butchers, who play a key role in A Burnable Book, are a great case in point.

A wild, despairing yell, and the waters closed over these wholesale butchers.

The booths were emptied of their cooks and butchers and silversmiths.

There are, no doubt, circumstances in which butchers and bakers do come uppermost.

Mrs Baggett looks on it only as a question of butchers and bakers.

"That I'll never be a party to the combination o' the butchers, to keep up the price o' meat," says he.

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