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butcher's hook
n. 1 A hook used by a butcher for hanging carcasses or meat from. 2 (context Cockney rhyming slang singulare tantum English) Same as (term: butcher's).
Usage examples of "butcher's hook".
They could see that the gun carriage had been overturned, and the broken body of one of the enemy gunners was hanging like beef on a butcher's hook from the splintered stumps.
As he did so, the butcher's hook that was looped over his belt caught on the material of his britches, causing them to tear all the way up to his waist.