A butcher was a person who prepared meat and similar food for sale.
Thomas Pringle was a pork butcher in the Fair Haven holoprogram. (VOY: "Fair Haven")
Slang usage[]
The term "butcher" was often employed as a nickname for persons who committed cruel crimes, such as murder. The Skagarans used the word "rokdar", their word for "butcher", to describe Cooper Smith. (ENT: "North Star")
Eli Hollander was nicknamed the "Butcher of Boseman" on his wanted poster. (TNG: "A Fistful of Datas")
General Dak'Rah was known as the "Butcher of J'Gal". (SNW: "Under the Cloak of War")
Flavius called an USS Enterprise landing party Roman butchers, as he thought they had been sent by First Citizen Merikus. Later, Septimus named Merikus himself a butcher. (TOS: "Bread and Circuses")
Mullibok called the Cardassians "mindless butchers". (DS9: "Progress") Specifically, during the Cardassian Occupation, Gul Darhe'el was known as the "Butcher of Gallitep". (DS9: "Duet")