body snatcher
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body snatcher
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From body + snatcher. Later use highly influenced by the novel The Body Snatchers (1955) and its repeated adaptation into film, wherein aliens begin replacing humans with pod people.
noun body snatchers · bodysnatcher · body-snatcher
- One who makes arrests, such as a bailiff or policeman. They proved to be two of those Body-Snatchers, called hired Constables, who were patrolling the Fields.
- One who abducts or controls another's body, such as a slaver, psychic, or human resources agent. A black woman told Carrie not to say master and missis, because you were body-snatchers and slave-drivers.
- One who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves, a resurrection man. Body-snatcher, a stealer of dead bodies from churchyards; which are sold to the surgeons and students in anatomy.
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A graverobber who steals bodies or body parts.
The head of a ring of bodysnatchers who stole the bones of broadcaster Alistair Cooke pleaded guilty yesterday.
Similar: resurrectionist
- A stretcher-bearer. No men could have behaved more admirably than my Imperial bearer companies, or 'body snatchers,' as the men used to call them.
Similar: pod person, resurrection man
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noun
Similar: pod person, resurrection man
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noun One who secretly removes without right or authority a dead body from a grave
| Italiano | ultracorpo |
|---|---|
| Ελληνικά | τυμβωρύχος tymvorýchos |
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