Definition of "butchers" []

• Plural form of butcher. (noun)
• Variant spelling of butcher's (Cockney rhyming slang). (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of butcher. (verb)

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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?"
• "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."
• "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."