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"ref": "1819, J. H. Vaux, “New Vocab. Flash Lang.”, in Memoirs:",
"text": "Body-snatcher, a stealer of dead bodies from churchyards; which are sold to the surgeons and students in anatomy.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1910, Encyclopædia Britannica, I. 937/2:",
"text": "So emboldened and careless did these body-snatchers become... that they no longer confined themselves to pauper graves.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"One who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves, a resurrection man."
],
"links": [
[
"sell",
"sell"
],
[
"cadaver",
"cadaver"
],
[
"anatomist",
"anatomist"
],
[
"surgeon",
"surgeon"
],
[
"etc.",
"etc."
],
[
"especially",
"especially"
],
[
"exhuming",
"exhuming"
],
[
"corpse",
"corpse"
],
[
"grave",
"grave"
],
[
"resurrection man",
"resurrection man"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(historical) One who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves, a resurrection man."
],
"tags": [
"historical"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2008 March 19, Daily Record, Glasgow, section 9:",
"text": "The head of a ring of bodysnatchers who stole the bones of broadcaster Alistair Cooke pleaded guilty yesterday.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A graverobber who steals bodies or body parts."
],
"links": [
[
"graverobber",
"graverobber"
],
[
"steal",
"steal"
],
[
"bodies",
"bodies"
],
[
"body part",
"body part"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(in particular) A graverobber who steals bodies or body parts."
],
"raw_tags": [
"in particular"
]
},
{
"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": "quote"
},
{
"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": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Robert W. Mackay, Soldier of the Horse, TouchWood Editions, →ISBN, →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": "quote"
}
],
"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"
]
}
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"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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