Definition of body bag
: a large zippered bag (as of rubber or vinyl) in which a human corpse is placed especially for transportation
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From that hug with Kanye to the zillion cross-body bags, here's what GQ staffers loved.
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Some of the summer classes even work with cadavers brought in sealed and kept moist in a body bag.
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Associated Press journalists witnessed the recovery of at least eight bodies, including five stretchers loaded with body bags in Los Lotes.
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Her body had been carried away in a white body bag that nurses had prepared with her name written neatly on the side.
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There were a lot of body bags; 58,000 troops died during the Vietnam War.
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International agencies are sending protective equipment for health workers, body bags to enable safe burials, chlorine-spraying equipment, water treatment kits and medicines.
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There were heads bound with yellow duct tape along major boulevards, and bodies bagged in cobalt plastic or strewn with cardboard signs.
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The sight of sidewalks littered with red body bags will not be easily forgotten.
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First Known Use of body bag
1917
BODY BAG Defined for English Language Learners
body bag
Definition of body bag for English Language Learners
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: a large bag that a dead person's body is put in to be carried or moved to another place
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medical Definition of body bag
: a large zippered bag (as of rubber or vinyl) in which a human corpse is placed especially for transportation
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