butcher

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun One who slaughters and dresses animals for food or market.
• noun One who sells meats.
• noun One that kills brutally or indiscriminately.
• noun A vendor, especially one on a train or in a theater.
• noun One who bungles something.
• transitive verb To slaughter or prepare (animals) for market.
• transitive verb To kill brutally or indiscriminately.
• transitive verb To botch; bungle: synonym: botch.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun One who slaughters animals for market; one whose occupation is the killing of animals for food.“
• noun An executioner.
• noun One who kills in a cruel or bloody manner; one guilty of indiscriminate slaughter.
• noun Figuratively, an unskilful workman or performer; a bungler; a botch.
• To kill or slaughter for food or for market.
• To murder, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner.
• Figuratively, to treat bunglingly; make a botch of; spoil by bad work: as, to butcher a job; the play was butchered by the actors.
• noun A long drink of beer.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food.
• noun A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle.
• noun such flesh of animals slaughtered for food as is sold for that purpose by butchers, as beef, mutton, lamb, and pork.
• transitive verb To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market.
• transitive verb To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner.
• transitive verb to bungle badly; to botch; -- used also when an object is damaged (literally or figuratively) in an activity.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
• noun by extension A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
• noun Cockney rhyming slang A look.
• noun informal, obsolete A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.
• verb transitive To slaughter animals and prepare meat for market.
• verb transitive To kill brutally.
• verb transitive To ruin something, often to the point of defamation.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
• noun a retailer of meat
• noun a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market
• verb kill (animals) usually for food consumption
• noun a brutal indiscriminate murderer