slaughterhouse
noun
slaugh·ter·house
ˈslȯ-tər-ˌhau̇s 
: an establishment where animals are butchered
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Known for its poultry slaughterhouses, Gainesville is now a manufacturing hub where startups can find engineers and greenfield sites.
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Patrik Jonsson, Christian Science Monitor, 3 June 2025
Crucially, the muscles of stags that had been hunted to death contained higher levels of lactic acid, while deer from a slaughterhouse who had their limbs immobilized in a splint before their death had lower levels, suggesting that the acid was generated by physical exertion.
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 24 Apr. 2025
But Decent Salaries Sanitation work, sewage treatment, slaughterhouse labor, and oil rig roughnecking are examples of dirty jobs that both college graduates and non-graduates tend to avoid.
—Jack Kelly, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
Sinners is almost two movies in one: a vampire slaughterhouse film that’s also a period piece about the near-impossibility of upward mobility in the segregation economy.
—Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 2 May 2025
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Patrik Jonsson, Christian Science Monitor, 3 June 2025
Crucially, the muscles of stags that had been hunted to death contained higher levels of lactic acid, while deer from a slaughterhouse who had their limbs immobilized in a splint before their death had lower levels, suggesting that the acid was generated by physical exertion.
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 24 Apr. 2025
But Decent Salaries Sanitation work, sewage treatment, slaughterhouse labor, and oil rig roughnecking are examples of dirty jobs that both college graduates and non-graduates tend to avoid.
—Jack Kelly, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
Sinners is almost two movies in one: a vampire slaughterhouse film that’s also a period piece about the near-impossibility of upward mobility in the segregation economy.
—Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 2 May 2025
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“Slaughterhouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slaughterhouse. Accessed 16 Jun. 2025.
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slaughterhouse
noun
slaugh·ter·house
ˈslȯt-ər-ˌhau̇s
: an establishment where animals are butchered
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