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slaughterhouse

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Slaughterhouse (also known as Pig Farm Massacre , Maniac and Bacon Bits ) is a 1987 horror comedy film .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a building where animals are butchered [syn: abattoir , butchery , shambles ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A place where animals are slaughtered. 2 (context figuratively English) The scene of a massacre.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A third measure will allow small slaughterhouses to use larger slaughterhouses to provide their veterinary supervision. ▪ Cattle farmers, slaughterhouses, butchers and restaurants braced for a sharp downturn in sales. ▪ Mr Gummer ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also slaughter-house , late 14c., "place where animals are butchered for market," from slaughter (n.) + house (n.). The Slaughter-house cases in U.S. history were 1873.

Usage examples of slaughterhouse.

The young agent took the photographs of the girls and pinned them to the corkboard, just above the CAD diagram of the slaughterhouse.

After hours or days squeezed into trucks, dehydrated and awake the whole trip, the cows are thrown in with other cows in the feedlot outside the slaughterhouse.

I hear what I hear, even being led through the streets of Haarlem like a pig to the slaughterhouse.

A landscape of endless sheds and factories, with thick black smoke belching up from the slaughterhouse incinerators, as bones and hooves and other nonessentials were melted down to make glue.

You see, slaughterhouses are akin to nuclear installations as far as visitors are concerned.

Animals would be born in the cloning bays, live short, artificially fattened lives, and die in the attached slaughterhouses, without ever once seeing the outside world.

Margo looked up and down the street, where kosher slaughterhouses and butcher shops fought for space with tailors' establishments and bakeshops.

He had no doubt his weapons could turn that valley into a slaughterhouse, yet even with air support that many enemies might manage to break at least some of their number out of the zone.

He didn't know if it was bad whiskey, nights in the cellar, pig fever, iron bits, smiling roosters, fired feet, laughing dead men, hissing grass, rain, apple blossoms, neck jewelry, Judy in the slaughterhouse, Halle in the butter, ghost-white stairs, chokecherry trees, cameo pins, aspens, Paul A's face, sausage or the loss of a red, red heart.

Other causes for sorrow were the decisions of the Drake, North Dakota, school board to burn copies of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, and of the California Board of Education to require the teaching of Genesis on a parity with the Darwinian theory of evolution.

Attendants were grouped about in tense curiosity, eager to aid our memory by telling us how we came there, and we soon heard of the farmer who had found us at noon in a lonely field beyond Meadow Hill, a mile from the old burying ground, on a spot where an ancient slaughterhouse is reputed to have stood.

The gun deck of Carondelet suddenly took on the look of a slaughterhouse.

The processing equipment in the slaughterhouse had been completely dismantled although they'd have to have serious overcrowding before anyone who knew what had happened in that plant would live in it.

At this slaughterhouse, cattle were normally stunned with an electrical charge before being killed.

Most surgeons wore black frock coats not unlike the ones butchers wore in slaughterhouses.