Butchers

v.

Heard in Dublin

Abbreviation of butchers hook, rhyming slang for look.

..I'll just have a butchers out the window.

Posh English

I shall just take a quick glance out of the window.

Related terms

• Fit as a butchers dogAn attractively proportioned young woman with an excellent figure.
• Butcher's hookDublin rhyming slang for 'look'.
• Gimme a pound a joesWhen in the butchers shop asking for a pound of sausages.
• Dind iv a hookThe very end or point of a fishing hook, often with the worm attached.
• Look crookedTo look at someone in even the slightest disapproving manner.
• Look lahLook at that.