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burker
(
plural
burkers
)
(
UK
,
slang
,
historical
)
One who
burkes
; one who
murders
in order to
sell
the
body
to an
anatomist
,
surgeon
, etc.
1877
, Dutton Cook,
Doubleday's Children
, page
90
:
Science was in league with the "
burkers
" and "body-snatchers,"
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]
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