body snatcher
One who abducts or controls another's body, such as a slaver, psychic, or human…One who abducts or controls another's body, such as a slaver, psychic, or human resources agent.
Meaning
5 sensesOne who abducts or controls another's body, such as a slaver, psychic, or human resources agent.
(historical)One who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves, a resurrection man.
someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection
A graverobber who steals bodies or body parts.
(UK, slang)A stretcher-bearer.
(derogatory, humorous, obsolete, slang)One who makes arrests, such as a bailiff or policeman.
Translations
2 languagesOrigin
From body + snatcher. Later use highly influenced by the novel The Body Snatchers (1955) aFrom 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.
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Forms
plural: body snatchersSynonyms
5 synonyms- someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection:graverobberghoul