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butcher's (butcher's hook)
1 look: take a butcher's at that
2 Australian rhymes with crook ill or injured: nah, he's not playing - he's butcher's

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noun
noun, Brit

1:
A look. (1936 —) .
K. Amis Have a butcher's at the News of the World (1960).

2:
to be or go butcher's Austral and NZ To become angry. (1941 —) .

[Short for butcher's hook: in sense 1, rhyming slang for 'look'; in sense 2, rhyming slang for 'crook' = angry.]


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