† ˌall-ˈnight-manObs. [=Man astir all night.] A former name for body-snatchers, or men who disinterred corpses by night in order to sell them to medical students for dissection. 1861Ramsay Remin.Ser. ii. 133, The body-lifters, or ‘all-night-men,’ as they were wont to be called.