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"categories": [
"British English",
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Military"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1917, General Buller, quotee, Military Medicine, volume 40, Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 341",
"text": "No men could have behaved more admirably than my Imperial bearer companies, or 'body snatchers,' as the men used to call them.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1951, Great Britain. Army. Royal Army Medical Corps, Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, volumes 96-97, J. Bale, Sons & Danielson, Limited, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 410",
"text": "Freezing conditions in the hills make essential the quick evacuation of wounded, and their regimental mates are full of praise for the sterling job done by the cheerful, tireless “body-snatchers” of the Battalion.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Robert W. Mackay, Soldier of the Horse, TouchWood Editions, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 185",
"text": "Tom dismounted and led Toby toward a group of men standing by a stack of stretchers. “Hey, you body snatchers,” he called out. “I have a wound that needs dressing.” He tied Toby to a stretcher.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A stretcher-bearer."
],
"links": [
[
"military",
"military"
],
[
"stretcher-bearer",
"stretcher-bearer"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(British, military, slang) A stretcher-bearer."
],
"tags": [
"British",
"slang"
],
"topics": [
"government",
"military",
"politics",
"war"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "En-au-body snatcher.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7f/En-au-body_snatcher.ogg/En-au-body_snatcher.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/En-au-body_snatcher.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "alien",
"word": "pod person"
},
{
"sense": "corpse-stealer",
"word": "resurrection man"
},
{
"word": "resurrectionist"
},
{
"word": "bodysnatcher"
},
{
"word": "body-snatcher"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "One who secretly removes without right or authority a dead body from a grave",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "ligrøver"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "tymvorýchos",
"sense": "One who secretly removes without right or authority a dead body from a grave",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "τυμβωρύχος"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "tumbōrúkhos",
"sense": "One who secretly removes without right or authority a dead body from a grave",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "τυμβωρύχος"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "One who secretly removes without right or authority a dead body from a grave",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ultracorpo"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "One who secretly removes without right or authority a dead body from a grave",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "likrövare"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "One who secretly removes without right or authority a dead body from a grave",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "liktjuv"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "One who secretly removes without right or authority a dead body from a grave",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "liksnattare"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "One who secretly removes without right or authority a dead body from a grave",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "likrånare"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "One who secretly removes without right or authority a dead body from a grave",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "likplundrare"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "One who secretly removes without right or authority a dead body from a grave",
"word": "nebbaş"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "One who secretly removes without right or authority a dead body from a grave",
"word": "mezar soyguncusu"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"The Body Snatchers"
],
"word": "body snatcher"
}
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