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body bag
noun
- a large bag made of heavy material and used to transport a dead body, as from a battlefield to a place of burial or from the scene of a death to a city morgue.
body bag
noun
- military a large heavy-duty plastic bag used to contain and transport human remains, esp those of battle casualties
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Having spent 11 hours in cold storage, she began moving around within her body bag, where mortuary staff found her alive and well.
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We unzipped the body bag, and a crowd of craned necks strained to get a look.
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Four of them carried a thick black nylon body bag, two to a side, and loaded it into the middle of the hull.
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This one woman crawled toward the body of her sister as the burial team carried out the body, carried the body bag away.
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Less than 10 minutes later, the attendants wheeled out the gurney, which now bore a black body bag.
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