zombie

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Plural noun:

zombieszombizombyzumbi

1.
(voodoo) 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.
Đồng nghĩa: living dead
2.
(horror) 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.
Đồng nghĩa: 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.
After working for 18 hours on the computer, I was a zombie.
5.
(figuratively)(figurative) Someone or something that should be dead but is not.
6.
An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement.
Đồng nghĩa: intellectual prostitute
7.
(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.
8.
(computing) 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.
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.
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.
Đồng nghĩa: bhang, benj, boo, broccoli, bud, buddha, cannabis, cheeba, choof, daccha, dank, devil's lettuce, djamba, doja, doobage, dope, endo, gage, ganja, ganj, grass, green, greenery, hash, hashish, hemp, herb, Mary Jane, MJ, marihoochie, marijuana, Mary Joanna, method, mezz, muggle, mull, pot, puff, reefer, sens, sensimillia, sensimilla, shit, sweetleaf, tea, Texas tea, trees, twig, wacky tobaccy, weed, yarndie, zaza, zombie
12.
(philosophy) A hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except in that it lacks conscious experience, qualia, or sentience.
Đồng nghĩa: p-zombie, philosophical zombie

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18th century. Partially through zombi, zonbi zombie, and zombi zombie. Ultimately from a - language. Compare nzambi god, zumbi (fetish), and nzumbi ghost (see zumbi, dyumbi), and Caribbean folklore's jumbie.