organlegger

See also: organ-legger

English

Alternative forms

  • organ-legger

Etymology

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

Noun

organlegger (plural organleggers)

  1. (science fiction) Someone who illegally harvests and sells human organs.
    • 2004, Simon R[ichard] Green, Deathstalker Return, New York, N.Y.: Roc Books, →ISBN, page 404:
      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.

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