butchered

(past participle)

When a task has been performed to a deplorable standard.

When something has been damaged completely.



Synonymous with: ruined, messed up, slaughtered, botched, bungled

I'm never using those those manufacturers again -- They completely butchered the design.
(They changed my design to an unrecoverable extent)


My answer *should* be right.. ..unless of-course I've butchered the working somewhere...
(My answer should be correct unless I've made a mistake in my working to the problem)


Avondale College butchered those chaps from MAGS.
(The team from Avondale college soundly beat the team from Mount Albert Grammar School)

by LGD May 20, 2004

butcher's

In cockney rhyming slang, to "have a butcher's" means to have a look, from the rhyming slang "butcher's hook".

Let's have a buthcer's around the grounds then, shall we?

by Santi July 11, 2005

butchers

An adaptation of the cockney Rhyming Slang "Bucthers Hook" (to look) made by locals from the Isle of Wight, England. In this case it's been used to discribe petty persistent criminals or a crook, hence the Butchers bit (butchers hook - crook).Beleived to have started primarily in the West of the Island in the early 1980's. Then went on to pervade the island and some parts of the near mainland. Now it is used to describe any Kind of criminal activity from torching a car to burglary and shoplifting.

Oii nipper did you read about butchers in the paper. Been caught shopliftling again.

by Red Lion March 26, 2007

butchers

Rhyming slang - Butchers hook, meaning look

Here let's have a butchers at that! (notso commonly - 'Here let's have a butchers hook at that!)

by Ollie Ford May 08, 2008

a butcher's

Cockney rhyming slang -- a butcher's hook, rhymes with look. The slang gets trickey in use as it is usually truncated. Apples and pears becomes apples, but refers to stairs.

I went and had a butcher's at that new café

by Fueltank September 15, 2005

Butcher

The best person you will ever meet. Amogus addicted.

A Butcher is not a human?

by KJWBDSKLJDFNW,KADJSNKCJZXN March 23, 2022

Butcher

A boy who has destroyed a large number of girls while having sex with them

I heard about that guy, he's a right Butcher

by EverybodyLovesChicken May 02, 2011