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organlegger

organlegger noun: someone who illegally harvests and sells human organs.

Noun

organlegger (plural organleggers)

  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

Forms of organlegger

pluralorganleggers
alternative formorgan-legger

Origin of organlegger

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

Questions about organlegger

What does organlegger mean?
Organlegger means someone who illegally harvests and sells human organs.
What part of speech is organlegger?
Organlegger is a noun.
What is the plural of organlegger?
The plural of organlegger is organleggers.

Words near organlegger in the dictionary

  1. organizeth
  2. organizin'
  3. organizing
  4. organizings
  5. organizized
  6. organlegger
  7. organleggers
  8. organless
  9. organlessness
  10. organlike
  11. organmaker

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