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(UK) A butcher's shop.
(Cockney rhyming slang, Australian rhyming slang) A look (short form of butcher's hook)
Of the fatted live weight of a pig 83% is butcher's carcase, and 91% of the increase from 100 to 200 lb is carcase.
An entirely opposite dietary is that in which butcher's meat is completely excluded and proteids reduced to a minimum, as advocated by Dr Haig.
In 1984 he returned as a butcher's boy, on the day of the sponsored walk.
Far from receiving rump steak; they were making a broth of the butcher's leftovers.
The two men were hacked to death with a seven-inch butcher's cleaver.