butcher boy noun4 •A man or boy who works for a butcher shop; a butcher's boy.Bob prick’d his lug and scratch’d his pate / For he was flushed with joy, / To think that he should be revenge’d / Upon the Butcher Boy. — 1839 •A woodlouse, any of various terrestrial crustaceans of the suborder Oniscidea.Today I stood on a butcher boy. He died. I feel bad. — 2006 •(US) Batting at a pitch with a short swing from a bunt position; a slash bunt, a slug bunt. •(slang, euphemistic) A male prostitute.He had clearly become a satyr once again, as evidenced by the rosy-faced butcher-boy that Moore met upon visiting him. The word butcher-boy was, like telegraph-boy, a euphemism for a male prostitute — 1997 formsbutcher boys