The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as at a slaughterhouse.
A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure.
A meat market
An abattoir, a slaughterhouse.
The stereotypical behaviors and accoutrements of being a butch lesbian.
The butchering of meat.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see culpable, homicide.
Homicide which is culpable but does not rise to the level of murder; unlawful killing of a human being which does not constitute murder.