body bag
noun
: a large zippered bag (as of rubber or vinyl) in which a human corpse is placed especially for transportation
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Liv jumps into the water to flee the zombies, but suffers a scratch and wakes up on a beach in a body bag, craving brains.
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ArsTechnica, 27 Apr. 2025
Films like Totally Killer (2023), The Blackening (2022), the Fear Street trilogy (2021), There’s Someone Inside Your House (2021), and Black Christmas (2019) aren’t anti-death but have more investment in their characters than a desire to fill body bags.
—Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2025
And at one point, Lochlan was in a body bag
But not to leave the resort.
—Justin Curto, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2025
Mas has recreated the image of carnage on the same scale as Picasso’s original, with the addition of black body bags referencing those used for casualties of the war in Ukraine.
—Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
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ArsTechnica, 27 Apr. 2025
Films like Totally Killer (2023), The Blackening (2022), the Fear Street trilogy (2021), There’s Someone Inside Your House (2021), and Black Christmas (2019) aren’t anti-death but have more investment in their characters than a desire to fill body bags.
—Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2025
And at one point, Lochlan was in a body bag
But not to leave the resort.
—Justin Curto, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2025
Mas has recreated the image of carnage on the same scale as Picasso’s original, with the addition of black body bags referencing those used for casualties of the war in Ukraine.
—Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
See All Example Sentences for body bag
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“Body bag.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/body%20bag. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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