body count
The number of persons or bodies counted as casualties, especially fatalities, or victimsThe number of persons or bodies counted as casualties, especially fatalities, or victims.
» We don't do body counts.
Мы не считаем трупы.
Мы не считаем тела.
Meaning
4 sensesThe number of persons or bodies counted as casualties, especially fatalities, or victims.
The number of persons or bodies counted as casualties, especially fatalities, or victims.
Of a killer, especially a serial killer, the number of people who have been killed by a given individual.
(slang)The total number of sexual partners of a given individual.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see body, count.
- a count of troops killed in an operation or time period
Examples
4 sentencesWe don't do body counts.
ruМы не считаем трупы.
The grim reaper has the maximum body count.
Everywhere in the city, body counts is increasing quite alarmingly and the culprit behind all this will soon be discovered.
What’s Rodrigo’s body count?
Translations
3 languagesOrigin
Coined by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War in the sense "number of killed enemy coCoined by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War in the sense "number of killed enemy combatants", in 1962 according to Merriam-Webster.
Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source