Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to hit someone in the body; thus bodier, a body-blow.

1818

Egan Boxiana II in DSUE (1984).

2. lit. or fig., to murder, to kill.

2011		G. Hayward Corruption Officer [ebk] cap. 54: The D.A. was going to cut me a deal if I told him who really bodied that kid but I ain’t no snitch.
2012		‘Dutch’ ? (Pronounced Que) [ebook] I bodied one of them faggots, but I want ’em both or word is bond, I’ll body you here and now .
2020		G. Krauze What They Was 204: They get into bed [and] ths person who they bodied is under the covers with them.
2022		Twitter 20 Sept. 🌐 Just Liz Truss getting bodied by the Labour shadow cabinet, foreign leaders, and MPs from her own party.