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Butcher giving male view (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

mangle

'butcher' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'giving male view' is the wordplay.
'giving' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'male' becomes 'm' (common abbreviation).
'view' becomes 'angle' (angle is a kind of view).
'm'+'angle' is 'MANGLE'.

(Other definitions for mangle that I've seen before include "Laundry squeezer" , "Butcher" , "Old-fashioned clothes dryer" , "rolling-press" , "Severely mutilate" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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