body snatcher

Etymology
From +. Later use highly influenced by the 1955 novel  and its repeated adaptation into film, wherein aliens begin replacing humans with pod people.

Noun

 * 1)  One who makes arrests, such as a bailiff or policeman.
 * 2) One who abducts or controls another's body, such as a slaver, psychic, or human resources agent.
 * 3)  One who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves, a resurrection man.
 * 4)  A graverobber who steals bodies or body parts.
 * 5)  A stretcher-bearer.
 * 1)  One who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves, a resurrection man.
 * 2)  A graverobber who steals bodies or body parts.
 * 3)  A stretcher-bearer.
 * 1)  One who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves, a resurrection man.
 * 2)  A graverobber who steals bodies or body parts.
 * 3)  A stretcher-bearer.
 * 1)  A graverobber who steals bodies or body parts.
 * 2)  A stretcher-bearer.
 * 1)  A stretcher-bearer.
 * 1)  A stretcher-bearer.

Synonyms

 * pod person
 * resurrection man, resurrectionist

Translations

 * Danish: ligrøver
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: τυμβωρύχος
 * Italian: ultracorpo
 * Swedish: likrövare, liktjuv, liksnattare, likrånare,
 * Turkish: ,