lich Noun
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(archaic) A corpse or dead body.
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(fantasy, roleplay) A reanimated corpse or undead being.
*1974 , (Karl Edward Wagner), ‘Sticks’:
*:It was a lich ’s face – desiccated flesh tight over its skull.
Derived terms
* lichgate
* lych-gate
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zombie Noun
( 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.[ ]EE Times , "Beware 'zombie' clauses," 2 Aug., 2004
(computing) A process or task which has terminated but was not removed from the list of processes, typically because it has child processes that have not yet terminated.
(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.
* 1976 , CX:ii, pages 8] and [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8LpWAAAAMAAJ&q=%22drank+zombies%22&dq=%22drank+zombies%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=uflUT6fRCIuY0QWBptCoCQ&redir_esc=y 380 :
- The maitre d’ introduced us and I had a zombie' with him. Those ' zombies are wicked.
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- I watched Mario and drank zombies out of a thermos.
(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.[The Canadian Encyclopedia , 2nd edition, Hurtig Publishers, Edmonton Canada, 1988. See "National Resources Mobilization Act," p. 1433.]
* 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?
(philosophy) A hypothetical person who lacks self awareness.
Synonyms
* (person that is undead) living dead, ghoul, walking dead
* (information worker) intellectual prostitute
Derived terms
(Terms derived from "zombie")
* antizombie
* zimbo
* zombic
* zombically
* zombielike
* zombify/zombification
* (business)
** zombie bank
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** zombie institution
** zombie company
** zombie business
** zombie organization
* (philosophy)
** zombie hypothesis
** zombie world
** zombie thought experiment
* (social science)
** zombie effect
** zombie walk
* (computing)
** zombie network
** zombie process
** zombie client
** zombie system
** zombie program
** zombie computer
** zombie state
** zombie version
** zombie host
** zombie path
** zombie user
** zombie software
* (dance)
** zombie dance
* (cinema)
** zombie film
** zombie genre
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