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  1. burker: Collins English Dictionary
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  5. burker: Wiktionary

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  1. burker: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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▸ noun:  (UK, slang, historical) One who burkes; one who murders in order to sell the body to an anatomist, surgeon, etc.

Similar:
butcherer, knacker, butcher, slink butcher, streeker, burrower, slaughterer, grave robber, searcher, bonedigger, more...

Opposite:
unburker, unbuckle

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Similar:
butcherer, knacker, butcher, slink butcher, streeker, burrower, slaughterer, grave robber, searcher, bonedigger, more...

Opposite:
unburker, unbuckle



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