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body snatcher

noun

  1. a person who steals corpses; graverobber.
  2. Slang. an agency that recruits executives working for one company to fill top management positions in another.


body snatcher

noun

  1. (formerly) a person who robbed graves and sold the corpses for dissection
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • body snatching, noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of body snatcher1

First recorded in 1805–15
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Example Sentences

Vicaria’s genius inspires the neighborhood kids to christen her “mad scientist” and later, “body snatcher,” for she labors under the conviction that “death is a disease.”

“Wait a second, how do we know you’re not an alien body snatcher pretending to be Jimmy!?”

Is she a well-meaning lonely soul or some kind of malevolent body snatcher?

“If I asked for decaf or, heaven forbid, to put anything in my coffee — cream or any sweetener — they would know for sure that a body snatcher had taken over my body,” wrote Claudia.

Former dental surgeon Michael Mastromarino was nicknamed “body snatcher” by the tabloids after he was charged with stealing tissue and bone from more than 1,000 corpses that sold for transplant and research.

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