body snatcher

noun

(slang, humorous, derogatory, obsolete) One who makes arrests, such as a bailiff or policeman. / One who abducts or controls another's body, such as a slaver, psychic, or human resources agent.

The body snatcher was arrested for stealing corpses from the morgue.

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意味（1）

(slang, humorous, derogatory, obsolete) 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.

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意味（2）

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.

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意味（3）

(historical) One who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves, a resurrection man.

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意味（4）

(in particular) A graverobber who steals bodies or body parts.

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意味（5）

(Britain, military, slang) A stretcher-bearer.

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