all night man

all night man
   obsolete British
   a dealer in corpses
   • He took newly buried corpses for sale to teaching hospitals, especially in Scotland.
    There was no property, or ownership, in a corpse and a paucity of donors who were fearful of a piecemeal return to earth of themselves or their relatives at the expected Resurrection of the Dead.
   See also resurrection man.

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