Usually means: Steals corpses or replaces people.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word BODY SNATCHER:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. body snatcher: Merriam-Webster
  2. body snatcher: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. body snatcher: Collins English Dictionary
  4. body snatcher: Vocabulary.com
  5. body-snatcher, body snatcher: Wordnik
  6. body snatcher: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. body-snatcher, body snatcher: Wiktionary
  8. body snatcher: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. body snatcher: Dictionary.com
  10. Body Snatcher (disambiguation), Body-snatcher, Body snatcher, The Body Snatcher (film), The Body Snatcher: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. body snatcher: Rhymezone
  12. Body-snatcher: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  13. body snatcher: FreeDictionary.org
  14. body snatcher: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. body snatcher: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. body snatcher: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. body snatcher: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. body snatcher: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See body_snatchers as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (body snatcher)

noun:  (slang, humorous, derogatory, obsolete) One who makes arrests, such as a bailiff or policeman.
noun:  One who abducts or controls another's body, such as a slaver, psychic, or human resources agent.
noun:  (historical) One who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves, a resurrection man.
noun:  (in particular) A graverobber who steals bodies or body parts.
noun:  (British, military, slang) A stretcher-bearer.

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