body count
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5.1
- noun
- /ˈbɑdi kaʊnt/
:
número de muertos
- After the battle, the final body count revealed a staggering total of over 400 soldiers killed.
- body count rose
- high body count
- mounting body count
You know, we would sweep and body count was a big thing.
- You know, we would sweep and body count was a big thing.
- Yeah, they get the job done, but with a body count.
- But I agree with Eric that saying that China's responsible for all the body counts, this is just unfair.
- We're talking about the body count of governments against their own people under socialism.
- I mean, again, I don't know where Trump gets off doing with this whole Clinton body count.
- But because they rarely step back to review the body counts that their insensitivity can often generate, they just keep pushing.
- Pets were murdered, people were thrown off balconies and this is the genesis of the hashtag Clinton body count.
- So he saw like African civil wars, which are way worse in terms of body counts and the heinousness cause a lot of that goes under reported, right?
Examples
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The body count is rising fast and the question has to be asked: is anywhere safe in Los Angeles tonight?
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Is that the official body count, sir?
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this brings our body count up to 13
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Major, get the final body count.
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I think we're looking at a body count of 50 to a hundred thousand people.
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My job is to bring back the bad news and keep the body count.
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We have the highest body count of any unit in Vietnam.
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What's the body count this time?
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Estimates of the Iraqi body count range between approximately one hundred thousand and one hundred and nine thousand.
Blog text (21) -
The body count for this week now stands at 67 Americans and 626 enemy soldiers killed in action.
Synonyms
780
1.0
The number of things or people that have been counted
61
3.5
Number of people who have died because of an accident, war, or disaster
45
3.5
Deaths of people caused by accidents, disasters, or violence
A list of people killed, often during a war or disaster
Antonyms
How Many Killed
23
5.1
76
5.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
Although 'body' + 'count' literally suggests a tally of bodies (e.g., casualties), the slang sense 'number of sexual partners' is a metonymic/idiomatic shift that cannot be predicted from the literal meanings. This informal, culturally specific usage is not deducible by a B1 learner who only knows the constituents, so it is opaque.
Etymology
Body count comes from soldiers and officers who literally counted dead people after a battle to see how many had been killed. That's why the phrase means 'the number of people killed' today.