resurrection man
resurrection man · resurrection men
A man who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses…A man who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves; a graverobber.
Meaning
1 senses(euphemistic, historical)A man who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves; a graverobber.
Origin
resurrection (“the act of rising from the dead and becoming alive again”) + manresurrection (“the act of rising from the dead and becoming alive again”) + man
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Forms
plural: resurrection menSynonyms
6 synonymsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Plural nouns — Because its plural is irregular