Butcher vs Slash - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between butcher and slash

is that butcher is to ruin (something), often to the point of defamation while slash is to reduce sharply.

As a proper noun Butcher

is {{surname|A=An|occupational|from=occupations}} for a butcher.

As a conjunction slash is

Used to connect two or more identities in a list.

butcher
English
(wikipedia butcher)
Noun
(en noun)
A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).

* 1900', , Chapter I,

He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days...

(by extension) A brutal or indiscriminate killer.

* Shakespeare

Butcher of an innocent child.

(Cockney rhyming slang, from butcher's hook) A look.

(informal, obsolete) A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.

Derived terms
* * butcher's hook * pork butcher
Verb
(en verb)
To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.

To kill brutally.

To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.

The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California".

Synonyms
* kill, slaughter * (kill brutally) massacre, slay * murder
slash
English

Noun
(es)
A swift cut with a blade, particularly with fighting weapons as a sword, saber, knife etc.

A swift striking movement.

* {{quote-news
, year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Chris Whyatt , title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Centre-back Branislav Ivanovic then took a wild slash at the ball but his captain John Terry saved Chelsea's skin by hacking the ball clear for a corner with Kevin Davies set to strike from just six yards out. }}
The symbol , also called diagonal, separatrix, shilling mark, solidus, stroke, virgule. Also sometimes known as a forward slash, particularly in computing.

(British, slang) A pee, a trip to the toilet to urinate

Excuse me, I need to take a slash

Slash fiction.

* 2013 , Katherine Arcement, "Diary", London Review of Books , vol. 35, no. 5:

Comments merely allow readers to proclaim themselves mortally offended by the content of a story, despite having been warned in large block letters of INCEST or SLASH (any kind of sex between two men or two women: the term originated with the Kirk/Spock pairing – it described the literal slash between their names).

(vulgar, slang) The female genitalia

(ice hockey) A quick and hard lateral strike with a hockey stick, usually across the arms or legs.

(US, dialect) swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes

(Bartlett)

(forestry) Coarse, fine woody debris generated during logging operations or through wind, snow, etc.

Slash generated during logging operations may increase fire hazard.

(fashion) An opening in an item of clothing to show skin or a contrasting fabric underneath.

Derived terms
* backslash * foreslash * forward slash * frontslash * front slash * slashable * slashy
See also
(punctuation)
Verb
(es)
To cut violently across something with a blade such as knife, sword, scythe, etc.

(ice hockey) to strike laterally with a hockey stick. usually across the legs or arms

to reduce sharply

Iran on Thursday called on OPEC to slash output by 2 million barrels per day.

The department store slashed its prices to attract customers.

To lash with a whip.

(King)

To crack or snap (e.g. a whip).

Derived terms
slash pile
Conjunction
(English Conjunctions)

I'm a teacher slash student.

I think I'm having hallucinations slash someone is playing tricks on me

See also
*
Quotations
* (English Citations of "slash") English coordinating conjunctions