gravedancer

See also: grave dancer

English

Etymology

grave +‎ dancer

Noun

gravedancer (plural gravedancers)

1. One who rejoices in the death or demise of another; one who dances on someone's grave.
   • 2014, Peter Watts, Behemoth: B-Max, →ISBN:

     Grave-dancers, for sure, all of them. But no diggers.

2. An investor who specializes in buying failing companies or distressed properties.
   • 2000, Hilary Rosenberg, The Vulture Investors, →ISBN, page 311:

     But the hangover's set in, And now a Gravedancers lookin'. It's Gravedancer times When there's panic in the land When assets sell at costs that scream, "Bail me out, man!"

   • 2014 May 30, Carla Fried, “Your Company Just Tossed a Pension Hot Potato in Your Lap. What Do you Do”, in Bloomberg:

     Reducing its pension liabilities to transfer large portions of employee pension money to its books, falsely showing the solidity of the corporation (only if temporarily), pumping and dumping its stock are all schemes created by useless paper-pushing crooks of Wall Street. Wake up GraveDancer!

   • 2014, Tony Doris, Dirt, →ISBN:

     But a Miami gravedancer named Boz Arlen smelled opportunity.

3. One who literally dances on a grave.
   • 1993, Analog Science Fact, Science Fiction - Volume 113, page 163:

     Pissed, the Iceman sends his bodyguard, the Gravedancer, off to learn who is behind them.

   • 2010 November 26, D.F. Oliveria, “Nevada 34, Boise State 31 In Overtime”, in The Spokesman Review:

     Dancing on graves just makes the gravedancers look silly and annoys the crows.

   • 2010, D W Moody, The Garden, page 46:

     the gravedancer comes/ the man inside the truck/ dreams of forgotten tomorrows/ he no longer recalls/ how he got there/ the blood on his clothes/ his matted hair/ his bruised body/ tell no answers