body bag
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- noun
- /ˈbɑdi bæɡ/
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bolsa para cadáveres
- After the accident, the authorities used a body bag to carry the deceased away from the scene.
- a body bag on a stretcher
- unzip the body bag
- carry a body bag
And for each body bag that that you use, that represents one person.
- And for each body bag that that you use, that represents one person.
- And two little body bags sitting there with crumpled bits in and a bridesmaid's dress covered in claret and just not, not nice.
- I tell people all the time, there's only two ways out of that that that ring for me OS towel or a fucking body bag.
- And don't get me started on those socialists in their government issued Antifa body bags.
- Oh my God, this is not not to give him in a suit like frozen in an explosion in the body bag, like clawing at his face, clawing at his face.
- It wasn't like I left in a body bag from Barstool, as a lot of people do, but not with maybe, like, the same.
Examples
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Paramedics wheel the gurney carrying Evangeline's body bag to an awaiting EMS vehicle.
Fiction book (2000) -
The paramedics placed the lifeless body into a body bag for transport to the morgue.
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You leave this house in a body bag.
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Pass me the body bag
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Injured, or in a body bag?
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What are you doing with a body bag, Wilson?
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And off he went, and he died there, and they shipped him home in a body bag.
Fiction book (1994) -
Last night, I watched as they rolled a body bag past me.
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The terrorists' bodies, now in body bags, are being placed in the bed of a large truck.
Fiction book (1996) -
Harsh sunlight shines on a line of body bags on the dock.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
A bag used to hold and move a dead person's body
A bag for carrying the body of a dead soldier
How Protected
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a large sealed bag for transporting a dead body' is directly and transparently derivable from combining 'body' (the physical remains of a person) with 'bag' (a container). This is a straightforward, literal compound noun following common English noun+noun composition and similar constructions exist in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Body bag is a literal name. It comes from a large sealed bag used to carry a dead body after a battle or disaster. Because the dead body is put into the bag, the phrase means 'a bag for moving a dead person'.