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ˈdeath-ˌhunter slang.
One who furnishes a newspaper with reports of deaths (obs.); a vendor of dying speeches or confessions (obs.); an undertaker; see also quot. 1816.
1738(title in Farmer), Ramble through London, containing observations on Beggars, Pedlars..Death Hunters [etc.]. 1776Foote Capuchin ii. Wks. 1799 II. 391 When you were the doer of the Scandalous Chronicle, was not I death-hunter to the very same paper? 1816C. James Milit. Dict. (ed. 4) 377/2 Death Hunters, followers of an army, who, after the engagement, look for dead bodies, in order to strip them. 1851Mayhew Lond. Lab. I. 228 (Farmer) The ‘running patterers’, or death-hunters, being men engaged in vending last dying speeches and confessions. |