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From body + snatcher. Later use highly influenced by the 1955 novel The Body Snatchers and its repeated adaptation into film, wherein aliens begin replacing humans with pod people.
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body snatcher (複数形 body snatchers)
- (slang, humorous, derogatory, obsolete) One who makes arrests, such as a bailiff or policeman.
- 1778 August 19, Public Advertiser
- They proved to be two of those Body-Snatchers, called hired Constables, who were patrolling the Fields.
- 1877, R. Rae, Newport, 40
- Look here, my body-snatchers, you have unlawfully abridged the liberty of one of the sons of the sovereign State of New York!
- 1778 August 19, Public Advertiser
- One who abducts or controls another's body, such as a slaver, psychic, or human resources agent.
- 1852, B.R. Hall, Frank Freeman's Barber Shop, xiv. 252
- A black woman told Carrie not to say master and missis, because you were body-snatchers and slave-drivers.
- 1894 September, Harper's Magazine, 581/2
- Girls who can't let a man go by without reaching out for him. That's what I call them—body snatchers.
- 1961 June, Fortune, 129/1
- McCulloch had no compunction about using these executive recruiting firms. They were, he knew, often derisively called ‘body snatchers’, ‘head hunters’, ‘flesh peddlers’, and ‘pirates’.
- 1994 August 9, Associated Press, Newswire
- 2000, C. Golden, Head Games, 166
- 1852, B.R. Hall, Frank Freeman's Barber Shop, xiv. 252
- (historical) One who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves, a resurrection man.
- (in particular) A graverobber who steals bodies or body parts.
- 2008 March 19, Daily Record (Glasgow), 9:
- The head of a ring of bodysnatchers who stole the bones of broadcaster Alistair Cooke pleaded guilty yesterday.
- 2008 March 19, Daily Record (Glasgow), 9:
- (Britain, military, slang) A stretcher-bearer.
同意語
- (alien) pod person
- (corpse-stealer) resurrection man, resurrectionist
参照
- Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed. "body snatcher, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2010.
- body-snatcher under body in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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