# body snatcher

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. One who makes arrests, such as a bailiff or policeman.
2. One who abducts or controls another's body, such as a slaver, psychic, or human resources agent.
3. One who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves, a resurrection man.
4. A graverobber who steals bodies or body parts.
5. A stretcher-bearer.

## Etymology
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.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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