butchery

noun7

1. •
   The butchering of meat.
2. •
   The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as if at a slaughterhouse.

   • The tyrannous and bloody act is done,— The most arch deed of piteous massacre That ever yet this land was guilty of. Dighton and Forrest, who I did suborn To do this piece of ruthless butchery — 1593
3. •
   A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure.
4. •
   Surgery that was botched or is asserted by the speaker to have been so.
5. •
   A butcher's shop; a meat market.
6. •
   (rare) An abattoir.
7. •
   (slang) The stereotypical behaviors and accoutrements of a butch lesbian.