"Piccadilly butchers" Definition

Definitions for the word "Piccadilly butchers" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. slang
a satirical name applied by the crowd to the regiment of Horse Guards, known as the “Royal Blues,” from their savage onslaught upon the crowd on the occasion of the arrest of Sir Francis Burdett at his house in Piccadilly, by order of the Speaker of the House of Commons. _See_ CHEESEMONGERS.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864

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