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organlegger en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of organ + bootlegger (“an illegal trader of goods, especially of alcohol”).

Meanings

  1. Someone who illegally harvests and sells human organs.
    • Owen lay dead in the bloody snow, his noble body gashed and punctured in many places, and soaked in his own gore. And that was how the organleggers found him. 2004, Simon R[ichard] Green, Deathstalker Return, New York, N.Y.: Roc Books, →ISBN, page 404:

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organ-legger alternative lexicographic
organleggers Number=Plur lexicographic