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- noun Plural form of
butcher . - noun Variant spelling of
butcher's (Cockney rhyming slang). - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
butcher .
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Examples
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Remember Bill Clinton back in 1992 couldn't believe how the former President Bush was dealing with what he called the butchers in Beijing and the dictator in Damascus?
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Remember Bill Clinton back in 1992 couldn't believe how the former President Bush was dealing with what he called the butchers in Beijing and the dictator in Damascus?
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The walls are adorned with black and white photos of burly butchers from the Smithfield meat market opposite, and the bar is topped with jars of pickled eggs and pork cockles.
Breakfast With Percy Peter Ashley 2008
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La Cámara de la Industria Alimenticia de Jalisco is alerting consumers that certain butchers and retail merchants are passing off horsemeat as beef in the metropolitan zone.
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In its own ponderous style, the paper tells us "it has learnt" that an investigation "will be launched into the sale of bogus organic meat in butchers 'shops and at farmers' markets around Britain", as enforcement agencies start a nationwide inquiry into the sale of ordinary meat labelled as more expensive organic produce, after a growing number of reports of the practice.
They get what they deserve Richard 2006
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Let us also not forget that Israel also supported - with arms - Latin American butchers like the Samosas in Nicaragua and Mont in Guatemala.
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“Teabagger Conservatives” are clueless sheep being lead to slaughter having somehow convinced themselves that their butchers are their saviors.
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“Teabagger Conservatives” are clueless sheep being lead to slaughter having somehow convinced themselves that their butchers are their saviors.
Think Progress » Grassley Takes Credit For Medicare Provisions In Health Care Law That He Opposed 2010
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“Teabagger Conservatives” are clueless sheep being lead to slaughter having somehow convinced themselves that their butchers are their saviors.
Think Progress » Grassley Takes Credit For Medicare Provisions In Health Care Law That He Opposed 2010
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“Teabagger Conservatives” are clueless sheep being lead to slaughter having somehow convinced themselves that their butchers are their saviors.
Think Progress » Former government employee Dana Perino doesn’t trust the government. 2010
punkin commented on the word butchers
As cockney slang: "Let's have a butchers at that magazine".
butcher's (hook) = look
August 16, 2009