Organlegger

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who illegally harvests and sells human organs.

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

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

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