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butcher's hook; butcher's
noun
a look UK, 1936
Rhyming slang.- Do you mind if we have a butchers in the boot? — Frank Norman, Bang To Rights, p. 122, 1958
- [A] new dance-hall had been opened over at Peckham and we were all dying to have a butchers and lamp all the new bird[.] — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, p. 34, 1962
- Save your breath for a Mayday call, skip, and take a quick butcher’s hook at what’s coming up at our four o’clock! — W.R. Bennett, Night Intruder, p. 25, 1962
- Meanwhile take a butcher’s at this lot and keep a penny a mile on your boat race! — The Sweeney, p. 7, 1976
- [T]ake a butcher’s hook at what lies before us[.] — Ronnie Barker, Fletcher’s Book of Rhyming Slang, p. 39, 1979
- “I brung you this.” A gold chain slithered down the front of my shirt. “Take a butchers.” — Kathy Lette, Girls’ Night Out, p. 174, 1987
- “Shall we swoop down for a quick butcher’s?” He stresses the last word, proud of his bit of Cockney. — Stuart Browne, Dangerous Parking, p. 261, 2000
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