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organlegger

noun

Etymology

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

  1. derived from *lagjaz✻
  2. derived from leggr — “leg, calf, bone of the arm or leg, hollow tube, stalk”
  3. inherited from leg
  4. compounded as bootleg — “boot + leg”
  5. formed as bootlegger — “bootleg + -er”
  6. compounded as organlegger — “organ + bootlegger”

Definitions

  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.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA