organlegger

English

Etymology

Blend of organ +‎ bootlegger (“an illegal trader of goods, especially of alcohol”).

Noun

organlegger (plural organleggers)

1. (science fiction) Someone who illegally harvests and sells human organs.
   • 2004, Simon R[ichard] Green, Deathstalker Return, New York, N.Y.: Roc Books, →ISBN, page 404:

     Owen lay dead in the bloody snow, his noble body gashed and punctured in many places, and soaked in his own gore. And that was how the organleggers found him.

References

• Jesse Sheidlower, editor (2001–2024), “organlegger, n.”, in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction.