"body bag" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: body bags [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} body bag (plural body bags)
  1. A non-porous bag designed to contain a human body, used for the storage and transport of corpses. Wikipedia link: body bag Categories (topical): Bags, Death Translations (bag designed to contain a human body): lijkzak [masculine] (Dutch), ruumispussi (Finnish), Leichensack [masculine] (German), puraku (Maori), pēke tūpāpaku (Maori), worek na zwłoki [masculine] (Polish), liksäck [common-gender] (Swedish)

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