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Etymology
Coined by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War in the sense "number of killed enemy combatants", in 1962 according to Merriam-Webster. In the late 2010s, it has also come to use to denote the number of sexual partners an individual has had.
Noun
body count (plural body counts)
- The number of persons or bodies counted as casualties, especially of those killed.
2017 January 12, Jesse Hassenger, “A literal monster truck is far from the stupidest thing about Monster Trucks”, in The Onion AV Club:In addition to racking up what looks like a substantial offscreen body count, the movie at one point offers an eight-second introduction for a sleazy used-car salesman character for the sole purpose of justifying Tripp and Creech laying waste to his inventory.
- (slang) The total number of sexual partners of a given individual.
- Hyponyms: notch count (with the vagin affecting the metric), cock count (with the penis affecting the metric), mileage (with the penis affecting the metric if tallied for a vagina-owner)