body bag

1. 1.

   a bag in which the body of a dead soldier is placed

   Synonymspersonnel pouchhuman remains pouch

   Broaderbag

Questions about body bag

What does body bag mean?

body bag means "a bag in which the body of a dead soldier is placed".

What is another word for body bag?

Close synonyms include personnel pouch, human remains pouch. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is body bag a common word?

body bag is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.