| Engels > Nederlands |
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| butcher |
| 1. slager, beenhouwer |
| 2. slachten |
| Engels > Engels |
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| butcher |
| 1. n. A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals). |
| 2. n. (figurative) A brutal or indiscriminate killer. |
| 3. n. (Cockney rhyming slang) A look. |
| 4. n. (informal, obsolete) A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc. |
| 5. v. To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market. |
| 6. v. To kill brutally. |
| 7. v. To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation. |
| The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California". |
| 8. adj. comparative form of butch: more butch |
| Nederlands > Engels |
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| slager |
| 1. n-m. butcher (one who prepares and sells meat and meat products) |
| Je wilt niet dat de slager zijn eigen vlees keurt. - You don't want a butcher to assess his own meat. (i.e., judgment of one's own work is unreliable due to bias) |
| 2. n-m. (obsolete) killer, slayer, murderer |
