corpsicle
noun/ˈkɔːp.sɪ.kəl/UK/ˈkɔɹp.sɪ.kəl/US
Etymology
Blend of corpse + popsicle. The cryogenic sense is a coinage by author Frederik Pohl in The Age of the Pussyfoot (1969).
Definitions
A person who has been cryonically frozen in the hope of later revival.
- There are dozens of companies that will turn you into a human corpsicle and store your chilled earthly remains indefinitely.
- I won't turn you into a corpsicle and hope somebody knows how to fix you in a hundred years.
A frozen corpse.
- It started when a janitor found a corpsicle floating in a rooftop swimming pool next to Central Park one August morning. A stiff, but I mean stiff.
- Eventually, the much-travelled corpsicle arrived back at the family farm, where she was stripped of her plastic shroud and set on the lawn to thaw out before being laid to rest.
- But if he wandered away in a confused state when the dark came on, he's a corpsicle by now.”
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for corpsicle. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA