body snatcher

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim One who makes arrests, such as a bailiff or policeman.

   “They proved to be two of those Body-Snatchers, called hired Constables, who were patrolling the Fields.”

2. isim One who abducts or controls another's body, such as a slaver, psychic, or human resources agent.

   “A black woman told Carrie not to say master and missis, because you were body-snatchers and slave-drivers.”

3. isim One who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves, a resurrection man.

   “Body-snatcher, a stealer of dead bodies from churchyards; which are sold to the surgeons and students in anatomy.”

4. isim A graverobber who steals bodies or body parts.

   “The head of a ring of bodysnatchers who stole the bones of broadcaster Alistair Cooke pleaded guilty yesterday.”

5. isim A stretcher-bearer.

   “No men could have behaved more admirably than my Imperial bearer companies, or 'body snatchers,' as the men used to call them.”