Corpsicle
noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A person who has been cryonically frozen in the hope of later revival.
"'Your newspapers called you people corpsicles,' said the blond man. 'I never understood what the tapes meant by that.' 'It comes from Popsicle. Frozen sherbet.' Corbell had used the word himself before he became one of them. One of the corpsicles, the frozen dead."
- 2 A frozen corpse. informal
"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."
Example
More examples"'Your newspapers called you people corpsicles,' said the blond man. 'I never understood what the tapes meant by that.' 'It comes from Popsicle. Frozen sherbet.' Corbell had used the word himself before he became one of them. One of the corpsicles, the frozen dead."
Etymology
Blend of corpse + popsicle. The cryogenic sense is a coinage by author Frederik Pohl in The Age of the Pussyfoot (1969).
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