zombie

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  1. noun A snake god of voodoo cults in West Africa, Haiti, and the southern United States.
  2. noun A supernatural power or spell that according to voodoo belief can enter into and reanimate a corpse.
  3. noun A corpse revived in this way.
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  • Someone who does a lot of illegal drugs, especially to the point of addiction, is often called a zombie, or at least zombie-like, because there is often something crude and primitive about their behaviour and because their minds are adversely affected.
  • Elsewhere in business, a zombie is a company that is able to pay its bills and service its debt (meaning, make regular payments on money it has borrowed), but it is not able to borrow sufficiently to make improvements and grow, nor does it seem like a good prospect for a takeover.
  • And the energy had backlashed on the Knight--zombie or live--that had leashed it and brought it here. —  Author Galley
  • Paxil likewise left him feeling like a zombie, and in addition, it robbed him of his sex drive. —  F ;SF - vol 099 issue 03 - September 2000
  • What almost made it worse was that none of them did it intentionally; it just was very easy to treat a zombie like a zombie, a thing. —  Dragon on a Pedestal
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  1. Caribbean French and English Creole, from Kimbundu -zumbi, ghost, departed spirit.
 

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