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Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A person who has been cryogenically frozen in the hope of later revival in science fiction.
Etymologies
- Blend of corpse and popsicle, equivalent to corpse + -icle. A coinage of author Frederik Pohl in The Age of the Pussyfoot (1969) (Wiktionary)
Examples
“That word corpsicle has to be an advertising stunt.”
“It will never be as shocking as the original "corpsicle" (and subsequent "headsicle") ideas.”
“I think the term that you are looking for is "corpsicle". because there's hardly any DNA left in those fossils, let alone anything that's not damaged beyond recognition.”
“Sad to see him as a corpsicle though, he is/was a great bad guy.”
“If only she had kept some back, she wouldn't be a corpsicle right now.”
“Mira is woken at intervals over a couple of centuries, makes friends with a man who later admits he could never afford to revive her, and also learns that her lover is a corpsicle in the same facility.”
“His fall cracked out the ice chunk containing the body, and backup patrolmen used long poles from a sculling shed down the river to pull in the corpsicle.”
“NBA Broadcasting continued its coverage of the corpsicle heirs and its editorials in favor of the bill.”
“Proponents took every opportunity to point out that many corpsicle heirs still remained to be discovered.”
“I went looking for a rich corpsicle with a young, healthy direct-line heir.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘corpsicle’.
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Sicle
I sicle, you sicle, we're all sick for something-sicle
Popsicle, Creamsicle, Dreamsicle, Fudgesicle, cake-sicle, Epsicle, poopsicle, motorsickle, findesicle, hammerandsicle, bisicle, ossicle and 19 more...
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hildjj's Words
bookmarklet, demisemiquaver, zeitgeist, hermeneutics, oligarch, quisling, absinthe, mellifluent, verisimilitude, implacable, necrotic, nacreous and 243 more...
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.biffy, bibcock, barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibliobibuli, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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Death
postmortem, antemortem, casketing, cadaveric, entombment, inurnment, casket coach, cremains, disinterment, epitaph, bequest, catacombs and 59 more...
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Englische Kuriositäten
glasshole, waffle, wonky, corpsicle, obamarama, monkeypox, brazilianisation, privatopia, metallurgy, fwap, zombiefied, bric-a-brac and 8 more...
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i like how these sound or look
twittering, chooky, tekeli-li, ivrogne, feckless, pertinaciously, reprehensible, scorpling, ductility, illimitable, fickleness, licentiousness and 6 more...
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seanahan see also copsik Feb 17, 2007
palooka Slang for a corpse that has been cryonically preserved (frozen). Advocates of cryonics find it an offensive term. Per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpsicle Feb 16, 2007