body snatcher

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who makes arrests, such as a bailiff or policeman. derogatory,humorous,obsolete,slang
    — They proved to be two of those Body-Snatchers, called hired Constables, who were patrolling the Fields.
  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.
  3. One who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves, a resurrection man. historical
    — Body-snatcher, a stealer of dead bodies from churchyards; which are sold to the surgeons and students in anatomy.
  4. A graverobber who steals bodies or body parts.
    — The head of a ring of bodysnatchers who stole the bones of broadcaster Alistair Cooke pleaded guilty yesterday.
  5. A stretcher-bearer. UK,slang
    — No men could have behaved more admirably than my Imperial bearer companies, or 'body snatchers,' as the men used to call them.

词形变化

body snatchers plural bodysnatcher alternative body-snatcher alternative

词汇关系

近义词
pod person resurrection man

词源

From body + snatcher. Later use highly influenced by the novel The Body Snatchers (1955) and its repeated adaptation into film, wherein aliens begin replacing humans with pod people.
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