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plural zombies
(voodoo, horror) A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his or her own. quotations examples
Betsy Connell: I don't know about zombies, doctor. Just what is a zombie? / Dr. Maxwell: A ghost. A living dead. It's also a drink.
1943, Curt Siodmak, Ardel Wray, I Walked with a Zombie (motion picture)
The zombies were having funThe party had just begunThe guests included Wolf-Man, Dracula, and his son.
1962, “Monster Mash”, Bobby "Boris" Pickett and Lenny Capizzi (lyrics), performed by Bobby (Boris) Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers
Ashley: Dad passed on a few years back. He's probably still watching, though.Shepard: He's not a zombie, is he?
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC, scene: SSV Normandy
The zombies first show up 20 minutes in, after Melanie volunteers herself as the next child to mysteriously disappear in the middle of the night. That’s when we learn that Melanie and her classmates are all “hungries,” or people infected with a toxic fungus that turns them into mindless flesh-eating animals.
2017 February 23, Katie Rife, “The Girl With All The Gifts tries to put a fresh spin on overripe zombie clichés”, in The Onion AV Club
(figuratively) An apathetic or slow-witted person. examples
(figuratively) A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion. examples
An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement. examples
(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. quotations examples
9. The process executed the exit system call and is in the zombie state. The process no longer exists, but it leaves a record containing an exit code and some timing statistics for its parent process to collect. The zombie state is the final state of a process.
1986, Maurice J. Bach, The Design of the Unix Operating System, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA, See "Process States and Transitions," p. 147.
(computing) A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge. examples
A cocktail of rum and fruit juices. quotations examples
She takes the taxi to the good hotel / Bon marché as far as she can tell / She drinks the zombie from the cocoa shell
1976, Walter Becker, Donald Fagen (lyrics and music), “Haitian Divorce”, in The Royal Scam, performed by Steely Dan
The maitre d’ introduced us and I had a zombie with him. Those zombies are wicked. / […] / I watched Mario and drank zombies out of a thermos.
1976, Harvard Advocate CX:ii, pages 8 and 380
(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. quotations
Had the time come to order Canada's home defense draftees—some 70,000 zombies idling at home—to battle overseas?
1944, "Time for Decision," Time (US edition), 6 Nov.
(Australia, slang) Marijuana, or similar drugs. quotations
Traveling in a fried-out Kombi / On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
1980, Colin Hay, Ron Strykert (lyrics and music), “Down Under”, performed by Men at Work
(philosophy) A hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except in that it lacks conscious experience, qualia, or sentience. examples