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Which food-sellers look like a Cockney? (8)

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butchers

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(Other definitions for butchers that I've seen before include "Meat shop (look!)" , "Look (slang) - Smithfield Market workers" , "kills cruelly" , "Retailers of meat" , "Animal killers in Schubert composition" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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