butcher (noun)
1: a retailer of meat [syn: meatman]
2: a brutal indiscriminate murderer
3: a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market [syn: slaughterer]
4: someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence [syn: bungler, blunderer, fumbler, bumbler, stumbler, sad sack, botcher, fuckup] v : kill (animals) usually for food consumption; "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter" [syn: slaughter]