body count

1. 1.

   a count of troops killed in an operation or time period

   “the daily body count increased as the war went on”

   Broadercount

Questions about body count

What does body count mean?

body count means "a count of troops killed in an operation or time period".

Is body count a common word?

body count is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.