burke
Meaning
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- (slang) To murder by suffocation.
- (slang) To murder for the same purpose as Burke, to kill in order to have a body to sell to anatomists, surgeons, etc.
- (slang) To smother; to conceal, hush up, suppress.
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/bɜː(ɹ)k/
Etymology
Eponymous, from William Burke.
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