zombie
IPA: zˈɑmbi
noun
- (voodoo, horror) A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his or her own.
- (figuratively) An apathetic or slow-witted person.
- (figuratively) A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion.
- 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.
- (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.
- (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.
Examples of "zombie" in Sentences
- The zombies crave flesh, for the most part.
- Undirected, the zombies topple off the cliff.
- Zombies are encountered in the Spooky chapter.
- Garrison promptly shoots the zombie in the head.
- The truth is that a zombie is not lack in sentience.
- He muses over the validity of the zombie's statement.
- The zombies entered the building and ripped the blanket.
- All of the zombie movies change and rearrange the rules.
- The zombies hack at the doors of the house with the tools.
- Observe the zombies as they totter in, drooling and muttering.
- Stuart Gordon says the term zombie originates from the African Congo word zumbi, which means 'enslaved spirit.'
- So when I use the term zombie I am not referring to a specific bank today, but rather the effect this legislation has.
- It had to be some kind of demon, had to be, because the word her brain came up with, the word zombie, was not possible.
- Even worse, the term zombie is used to describe people and institutions that should be capable of decisive action at this critical moment.
- Grahame-Smith prefers to use words such as “undead,” “unmentionables” and “plague stricken” instead; although, the word zombie is peppered throughout.
- Graham says people shouldn't get caught up on that word nationalization, that we cannot keep funding what he calls zombie banks without the public taking control.
- The term zombie company is a throwback to the 1990s when the Japan's asset bubble burst and large corporations avoided bankruptcy by being kept alive with loans from banks that also held their stock.
- And I know you can't comment specifically on any deals but maybe you could just talk about what you're seeing up in your marker right now, on sort of whether there is an increase in sort of what I call zombie banks versus FDIC deals.