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zombie

Noun

Meaning

(voodoo, horror) A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his/her own.
Synonyms: ghoul, living dead, walker, walking dead, (slang) zed

(figuratively) An apathetic or slow-witted person. [1936]

(figuratively) A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion.
After working for 18 hours on the computer, I was a zombie.

An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement.
Synonym: intellectual prostitute

(computing) A process or task which has terminated but has not been removed from the list of processes, typically because it has an unresponsive parent process.

(computing) A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge.

A cocktail of rum and fruit juices.

(Canada, historical, derogatory) A conscripted member of the Canadian military during World War II who was assigned to home defence rather than to combat in Europe.

(Australia, slang) Marijuana, or similar drugs.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana

(philosophy) A hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except in that it lacks conscious experience, qualia, or sentience.
Synonyms: p-zombie, philosophical zombie

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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I am a conservative, but I am not a zombie. Glenn Beck

Yeah, I know I'm ugly... I said to a bartender, 'Make me a zombie.' He said 'God beat me to it.' Rodney Dangerfield

I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack. Simon Pegg

I wasn't a sex symbol, I was a sex zombie. Veronica Lake

Even if there's a zombie apocalypse, you'll still be able to travel using the Tesla Supercharging system. Elon Musk

You can assume that if a writer's work has survived for centuries, there are reasons why this is so, explanations that have nothing to do with a conspiracy of academics plotting to resuscitate a zombie army of dead white males. Francine Prose

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