"butcher's hook" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: butcher's hooks [plural], butchers' hooks [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|s|butchers' hooks}} butcher's hook (plural butcher's hooks or butchers' hooks)
  1. A hook used by a butcher for hanging carcasses or meat. Translations (hook for hanging carcasses): τσιγκέλι (tsigkéli) (Greek), gancho de carnicero [masculine] (Spanish), gancho de carnicería [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-butcher's_hook-en-noun-OwUiiVNz Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of 'hook for hanging carcasses': 86 14
  2. (Cockney rhyming slang, singular only) Synonym of butcher's Tags: Cockney, singular, singular-only, slang Synonyms: butcher's [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-butcher's_hook-en-noun-p3xUSVQl Categories (other): English singularia tantum, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50

Inflected forms

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