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  • noun Alternative spelling of body snatcher.

Etymologies

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body +‎ snatcher

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Examples

  • Among its dour treasures: a flogging bench with handmade flog, and a grisly purse made of skin from the hand of Burke the bodysnatcher himself.

    Barry Yourgrau: A Remembrance In Edinburgh Barry Yourgrau 2012

  • Brilliant aquamarine but bloodshot eyes - is that a sign of coloured contact lenses or being a bodysnatcher?

    Quick round up amuchmoreexotic 2008

  • And then I had a sequence flash through my head, a little mental cinema of von Frankenstein looking at one of his failed experiments and wondering what the hell to do with it, passing it to the bodysnatcher who he'd purchased the parts from, and then when the bodysnatcher's cart is surrounded by an angry mob the body in the back of the cart gets up...

    Archive 2009-01-11 Sean Craven 2009

  • At which point I started writing a scene with a pure collector and a bodysnatcher sharing a drink.

    Archive 2009-01-11 Sean Craven 2009

  • What if the bodysnatcher had to dispose of a body?

    Archive 2009-01-11 Sean Craven 2009

  • Island marooned alien derelict bodysnatcher decides on a shooting swansong.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Blue Tyson 2008

  • Why would bodysnatcher Harman pose as the enemy of money grabbing local authorities?

    Leaseholders used as cash-points Newmania 2006

  • Island marooned alien derelict bodysnatcher decides on a shooting swansong.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: A Traveler's Tale - Lucius Shepard Blue Tyson 2007

  • And the offspring was a bodysnatcher, deployed by a shadow government to replace people and engineer discontent.

    nessus Diary Entry nessus 2003

  • “You tend to your business, you infernal bodysnatcher, and let us run ours, ” ran the message, and I understood.

    My Dog is avenged 1901

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