ZOMBIE
Zombie
Zombies are fictional undead creatures regularly encountered in horror and fantasy themed works. They are typically depicted as mindless, reanimated corpses with a hunger for human flesh, and particularly for human brains in some depictions. Although they share their name and some superficial similarities with the zombie from Haitian Vodun, their links to such folklore are unclear. Many consider George A. Romero's seminal film Night of the Living Dead to be the progenitor of these creatures. Zombies have a complex literary heritage, with antecedents ranging from Richard Matheson and H. P. Lovecraft to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, all drawing on ...The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Zombie (fictional)
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zombie
Noun
- A snake god or fetish in religions of West Africa and elsewhere.
- A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his/her own.
- 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!
- An apathetic person.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A conscripted member of the Canadian military during World War II who was assigned to home defence rather than to combat in Europe.
- A hypothetical person who lacks self awareness.
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