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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A dead body, especially the dead body of a human.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A living body; the physical frame of an animal, especially of a human being.
  2. n. A dead body, especially, and usually, of a human being: originally with the epithet dead expressed or implied in the context.
  3. n. Eccles., the land with which a prebend or other ecclesiastical office in England is endowed.
  4. n. Synonyms Remains, corse (poetic).
  5. To make a corpse of; murder.
  6. To ‘put out’ or confuse (an actor) in speaking his lines or to spoil (his ‘business’) by some blunder or mistake.

Wiktionary

  1. n. a dead body
  2. v. intransitive, slang to lose control during a performance and laugh uncontrollably

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. obsolete A human body in general, whether living or dead; -- sometimes contemptuously.
  2. n. The dead body of a human being; -- used also Fig.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the dead body of a human being

Etymologies

  1. From Latin corpus ("body") (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English corps, from Latin corpus; see kwrep- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • knitandpurl I'd never heard this as a verb, I don't think! As in:
    "Maureen emerged from behind the counter in her short black dress and frilly apron, and Shirley corpsed into her coffee."
    The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling, p 351 Jan 9, 2013

  • gcastro heard it on a fbi investigation that cops found a corpse. Oct 31, 2010

  • vanishedone As a verb: 'The conceit of death by laughter is a curious one and not restricted to the ancient world. Anthony Trollope, for example, is reputed to have “corpsed�? during a reading of F. Anstey’s comic novel Vice Versa.' Feb 19, 2009

  • frindley Code Outputting Resources for Programmed Service Engineering
    another wonderful acronym courtesy of elgiad007 on idiots Nov 12, 2008

  • Prolagus I fought in a war and I left my friends behind me
    To go looking for the enemy, and it wasn't very long
    Before I would stand with another boy in front of me
    And a corpse that just fell into me, with the bullets flying round.


    (I fought in a war, by Belle and Sebastian) Aug 24, 2008

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