abattoir

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[AH-buh-TWAHR]

  • n. a slaughterhouse
I love the little bastards, but every time my ferrets got up on the table while I'm cooking I'm tempted to send them straight to the abattoir.

EDITOR'S NOTE: from the French abattre, "to beat down, to slaughter (an animal)," abattoirs are rarer (pun intended) than they used to be.

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The herd mentality in the US has been quite disturbing. It's just a miracle that our ignorance as a nation has not led us to the abattoir.

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