thealiasman2000 said:
1-What about "Snakes on a Plane"?
2-The "28 Days Later" creatures were zombies, the thing is no one wants to admit that they are.
5 entries found for zombie.
zom·bie also zom·bi Audio pronunciation of "zombie" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (zmb)
n. pl. zom·bies, also zom·bis
1. A snake god of voodoo cults in West Africa, Haiti, and the southern United States.
2.
1. A supernatural power or spell that according to voodoo belief can enter into and reanimate a corpse.
2. A corpse revived in this way.
3. One who looks or behaves like an automaton.
4. A tall mixed drink made of various rums, liqueur, and fruit juice.
[Caribbean French, and English Creole from Kimbundu -zumbi, ghost, departed spirit.]
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zombie
A company that remains in business even though it is technically bankrupt and almost surely headed for the graveyard.
Source: Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms for Today's Investor by David L. Scott.
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zombie
n 1: a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force [syn: zombi, the living dead] 2: (voodooism) a spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a dead body [syn: zombi, zombi spirit, zombie spirit] 3: a god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped especially in West Indies [syn: zombi, snake god] 4: someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way; "only an automaton wouldn't have noticed" [syn: automaton, zombi] 5: several kinds of rum with fruit juice and usually apricot liqueur [syn: zombi]
Source: WordNet ® 2.0, © 2003 Princeton University
zombie
1. <operating system> zombie process.
2. <chat> A ghost.
[Jargon File]
(1997-10-08)
Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2005 Denis Howe
zombie
n. [Unix] A process that has died but has not yet
relinquished its process table slot (because the parent process
hasn't executed a `wait(2)' for it yet). These can be seen in
`ps(1)' listings occasionally. Compare orphan.