zombie

noun zombies · zombi · zomby · zumbi

1. A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his or her own, typically being slow, obedient, and harmless unless directed to be harmful. 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.

   Similar: living dead

2. A dead person, reanimated through some fictional agency as a fungus, virus, or the like, that has an insatiable desire to eat living humans, typically depicted as aggressive, fast moving, and infectious. Ashley: Dad passed on a few years back. He's probably still watching, though. Shepard: He's not a zombie, is he?

   Similar: deadhead, walker, walking dead, zed

3. figuratively An apathetic or slow-witted person.
4. figuratively A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion.
5. figuratively A person or entity that is expected to be deceased or defunct, yet continues to exist or persist. I walked (I walked, I walked) / Like a zombie in the night / You came (you came, you came) / And you brought me back to life
6. An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement.

   Similar: intellectual prostitute

7. 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. 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. 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
8. A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge.
9. A cocktail of rum and fruit juices. 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.
10. Canada, derogatory, historical A conscripted member of the Canadian military during World War II who was assigned to home defence rather than to combat in Europe. 1944, "Time for Decision," Time (US edition), 6 Nov., Had the time come to order Canada's home defense draftees—some 70,000 zombies idling at home—to battle overseas?
11. Australia, slang Marijuana, or similar drugs. Traveling in a fried-out Kombi / On a hippie trail, head full of zombie

    Similar: bhang, benj, boo, broccoli, bud, buddha, cannabis, cheeba, choof, daccha, dank, devil's lettuce

12. A hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except in that it lacks conscious experience, qualia, or sentience. Few of us would want friends or romantic partners who ghost-walked through events in our lives, seeming to share experiences with us, but in fact feeling nothing, being what philosophers call “zombies.”

    Similar: p-zombie, philosophical zombie

13. slang A person whose senses and faculties are severely dulled by drug use. I'm worried about that guy on the corner, he is a fent zombie.
14. Philippines, slang A person with a big appetite.