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Burker

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who burkes; one who murders in order to sell the body to an anatomist, surgeon, etc. UK, historical, slang

    "Science was in league with the "burkers" and "body-snatchers," […]"

Etymology

From burke + -er.

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