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death-hunter

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Noun

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death-hunter (plural death-hunters)

  1. (UK, slang, obsolete) A peddler who sold lurid accounts of murderers' dying speeches and confessions.
  2. (UK, slang, obsolete) An undertaker (funeral director).

References

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  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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