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body snatcher
noun
One who makes arrests, such as a bailiff or policeman.
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"The walking Strandbeest is a body snatcher," he told me, while disassembling one for transport.
After all, in writing about my parents, wasn't I something of a body snatcher?
Unofficially, Mike Thomas calls himself body snatcher, grim reaper, night stalker, bag man.
He gave it all he had but ultimately the "Body Snatcher" was snatched, no longer an adversary but a convert.
He teamed with Karloff again in the eerie The Body Snatcher (1945), and he returned to the role of Dracula in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948).
It was the basis of the horror films The Body Snatcher (1945) and The Flesh and the Fiends (1959; called Mania in the United States).
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As for smartphones, they had turned people, body snatcher-like, into distracted drones.
Where will the body snatchers strike next?
You know the movie 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers'?
They did not need to buy from the body snatchers.
"It wasn't Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
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