Meaning

1 senses

  1. (UK, historical, slang)One who burkes; one who murders in order to sell the body to an anatomist, surgeon, etc.

Origin

From burke + -er.

From burke + -er.

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Forms

plural: burkers
Singularburker
Pluralburkers

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
burgleB2burgundyburialB2burlapburlesque
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