body bag

American  

noun

1. a large bag made of heavy material and used to transport a dead body, as from a battlefield to a place of burial or from the scene of a death to a city morgue.

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body bag British  

noun

1. military a large heavy-duty plastic bag used to contain and transport human remains, esp those of battle casualties

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Example Sentences

Eventually the group was able to lift the catfish out of the water with the aid of a couple of weigh slings and a body bag, which they had left over from a Halloween event.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2025

In preparation for almost anything, standard gear on the International Space Station today includes an early pregnancy test and a body bag.

From Salon • Nov. 22, 2024

One of the women, her eyes puffy from long hours of crying, sat by a casket labeled “Deniz Al-Baba” and put her head on the body bag.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2024

And in 2014, a Mississippi man who had been pronounced dead was found alive inside a body bag at a funeral home.

From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2024

I snatch the body bag from his hand and throw it into the bushes because body bags are for corpses and Mateo isn’t dead.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera