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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A place where animals are butchered.
  • noun A scene of massacre or carnage.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A house or place where animals are butchered for the market; an abattoir; hence, figuratively, the scene of a massacre; the scene of any great destruction of human life.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A house where beasts are butchered for the market.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A place where animals are slaughtered.
  • noun figuratively The scene of a massacre.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a building where animals are butchered

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Examples

  • DAVIES (voice-over): The assault is entering a new, highly sensitive stage, but as it does so, Iraqi forces fighting alongside the Marines say in a newly captured building they found what they call a slaughterhouse used for holding hostages.

    CNN Transcript Nov 10, 2004 2004

  • I find it curious that those who criticize hunting as "cruel" assume that an abbatoir or slaughterhouse is presumably a more humane environment.

    do you think hunting is cruel? 2010

  • I find it curious that those who criticize hunting as "cruel" assume that an abbatoir or slaughterhouse is presumably a more humane environment.

    do you think hunting is cruel? 2010

  • But then Schlosser actually shows what a slaughterhouse is like.

    Have It Your Way shadesong 2004

  • Wasn’t so long ago that working in slaughterhouse could provide you with a decent middle-class existence.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Conservative Immigration Split 2010

  • They are not "genuine" anything, nor are they coming from a "steakhouse," except for, I guess the slaughterhouse, which is a house where steaks come from.

    Wal-Mart "Genuine Steakhouse Brand Steaks" Are "100% Guaranteed Fresh" (Some Restrictions Apply) - The Consumerist 2008

  • Listening to bawling cows headed for the slaughterhouse is a shitty way to start a day.

    No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010

  • Listening to bawling cows headed for the slaughterhouse is a shitty way to start a day.

    No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010

  • The slaughterhouse is an imposing building in the early-morning light.

    Blood Men Paul Cleave 2010

  • The slaughterhouse is an imposing building in the early-morning light.

    Blood Men Paul Cleave 2010

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