body snatcher

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body snatcher

1. A person who steals corpses from graves and sells them, usually for purposes of dissection.

2. Slang A corporate recruiter.

body·snatching (b

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body snatcher

(Business / Professions) (formerly) a person who robbed graves and sold the corpses for dissection

body snatching n

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Noun

body snatcher - someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection

ghoul, graverobber

stealer, thief - a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it

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body Burke ghoul graverobber mortsafe pod person resurrectionist stealer thief			Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956, 12, Universal Directed by Don Siegel Walter Wanger (1894-1968), one of Hollywood's most respected producers, was down on his luck in the mid-1950s. DVD club by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk 00 Paperback PS3556 Novelist and short story writer Jack Finney (1911-1995) was best known for his science fiction and thrillers, most notably The Body Snatchers (the basis for the 1956 movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers) and Time and Again. Stealing through time; on the writings of Jack Finney by Reference & Research Book News One of the highlights is a new show by the much lauded Ophaboom company who are presenting the funnier side of the infamous Edinburgh body snatchers Burke and Hare. Arts Diary: Goodies bag; Fabulous mix offered in Unity's new season ... by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)			body mechanics body mike body modification body odor body odour Body of a church Body of a law body of a map or chart Body of Christ body of water body of work Body Organs body packer body pad body part Body plan body plethysmograph body politic body process body repairs body search body servant body shield body shirt body shop body snatcher body stocking body structure body substance body suit body swerve body temperature body type body wall body warmer body waste body wave body weight body wrap Body, Human body-build body-centred body-line body-packer body-search body-surf bodyboard bodyboarding bodybuilder bodybuilding bodycheck			body sense Body Sensor Networks body servant Body shame Body shame Body shame Body shame Body Shape Questionnaire body shield body shields body shields body shields body shields body shields body shirt body shop body shop Body Shop International Body shopping Body shopping Body shopping Body Shops Body Shops Body Side Moulding Body size (handwriting) Body size (handwriting) body sling body sling body sling body sling body snatcher Body snatching Body snatching body stalk body stalk body stalk body stalk body stocking body stockings body structure Body Stuffer body substance Body substance isolation Body substance isolation body suit Body surface area Body surface area body surface area (BSA) body surface area (BSA) body surface area (BSA) body surface area (BSA) body surface area (BSA) Body Surface Area Burn Body Surface Laplacian Map Body Surface Map Body Surface Potential Mapping body swerve body swerves body systems model Body temp Body temp

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