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macchabée

corpse, stiff (slang)

noun mah-kah-BEH Rare
Body & Health Health & Illness

Usage Note

Macchabée is argot (very informal/slang) for a dead body, used by police, forensic workers, and in crime fiction. It is not used in formal or respectful contexts. The word has no standard feminine form, and is pronounced as if written without the doubled letters.

Examples

"Les pompiers ont trouvé un macchabée."

Natural Translation

The firefighters found a corpse.

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