zombie
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
zombie (plural zombies)
- A snake god or fetish in religions of West Africa and elsewhere.
- (voodoo, superstition) A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his/her own.
- (fiction) A deceased person who becomes reanimate to attack the living.
- I shot a zombie. He was a zombie, Kenneth. The pilot was bitten before he picked us up!
- (figuratively) An apathetic person.
- (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.
- (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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 1944, "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,803382,00.html 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?
- 1944, "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,803382,00.html Time for Decision]," Time (US edition), 6 Nov.,
- (Australia, slang) Marijuana, or similar drugs.
- (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
- (person that is undead) living dead, ghoul, walking dead
- (information worker) intellectual prostitute
- French: zombi, zombie
- German: Zombie
- Italian: zombi
- Portuguese: zumbi
- Russian: зо́мби
- Spanish: zombi, zombie
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