body snatcher

短语

盗尸人 [法] 盗尸人

发音

AU

词形变化

body snatchers 复数

别名

bodysnatcher

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    One who makes arrests, such as a bailiff or policeman.

    贬义 幽默 废旧 俚语
  2. 2.

    One who abducts or controls another's body, such as a slaver, psychic, or human resources agent.

  3. 3.

    One who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves, a resurrection man.

    历史
  4. 4.

    A graverobber who steals bodies or body parts.

  5. 5.

    A stretcher-bearer.

    俚语 政治 军事

词汇关系

名词

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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