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body noun- a person, especially if under suspicion or arrest; a person to be framed for a crime UK
Police and criminal usage. - — Peter Laurie, Scotland Yard, p. 321, 1970
- — G.F. Newman, Sir, You Bastard, p. 253, 1970
- I’d never take bribes or anything. Do deals for information or bodies, for sure. But never the bung. — Jake Arnott, He Kills Coppers, p. 15, 2001
- a prisoner UK
Prison officers’ use. - Let’s get those bodies moved from upstairs! — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 29, 1996
- a person you have killed
- Vega allegedly bragged to the undercover cops that he had “bodies” on his criminal resume[.] — Daily News (Newyork), p. 1, 9 May 2001
- in the usage of showgirls, a man US
- — Don Wilmeth, The Language of American Popular Entertainment, p. 29, 1981
▶ to have a body to kill someone, used of a person or a weapon US- Larry “Head” Washington admitted he had a problem when he saw Leland Hodges at a bar in February. “I’ve got a body,” Washington allegedly told Hodges. That’s street slang for “I killed someone.” — The Cincinnati Enquirer, p. B7, 21 November 2009
- That’s when he said he could help police because the man he said sold the gun to him–Miller–told him when he sold it that it “had a body on it.” — The Cincinnati Enquirer, 5 October 2010
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