zombie

noun14

1. •
   a dead person who returns to life in films and stories and attacks living people to eat them

   • Ashley: Dad passed on a few years back. He's probably still watching, though. Shepard: He's not a zombie, is he? — 2008
2. •
   A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his or her own, typically being slow, obedient, and harmless unless directed to be harmful.

   • Betsy Connell: I don't know about zombies, doctor. Just what is a zombie? / Dr. Maxwell: A ghost. A living dead. It's also a drink. — 1943
3. •
   (figurative) An apathetic or slow-witted person.
4. •
   (figurative) A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion.

   • After working for 18 hours on the computer, I was a zombie.
5. •
   (slang) A person whose senses and faculties are severely dulled by drug use.

   • I'm worried about that guy on the corner, he is a fent zombie.
6. •
   A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge.
7. •
   (figurative) Someone or something that should be dead but is not.

   • I would advise anyone who does not share its politics — surely the great majority of gay men and lesbians — to shun NOLAG for the anachronistic zombie it is. — 1982
8. •
   A cocktail of rum and fruit juices.

   • Betsy Connell: I don't know about zombies, doctor. Just what is a zombie? / Dr. Maxwell: A ghost. A living dead. It's also a drink. — 1943
9. •
   A process or task which has terminated but has not been removed from the list of processes, typically because it has an unresponsive parent process.
10. •
    A hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except in that it lacks conscious experience, qualia, or sentience.
11. •
    (Australia, slang) Marijuana, or similar drugs.
12. •
    An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement.
13. •
    (Canada, offensive) A conscripted member of the Canadian military during World War II who was assigned to home defence rather than to combat in Europe.

    • Had the time come to order Canada's home defense draftees—some 70,000 zombies idling at home—to battle overseas? — 1944
14. •
    (Philippines, slang) A person with a big appetite.