"zombie out" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: en-au-zombie out.ogg Forms: zombies out [present, singular, third-person], zombying out [participle, present], zombieing out [participle, present], zombied out [participle, past], zombied out [past]
Etymology: First attested in 1981; zombie + out; compare the earlier adjective zombied-out (1976). Head templates: {{en-verb|*|pres_ptc2=zombieing out}} zombie out (third-person singular simple present zombies out, present participle zombying out or zombieing out, simple past and past participle zombied out)
  1. (informal) Become like a zombie in being listless, vacant, and unresponsive. Tags: informal Translations (become listless, vacant and unresponsive): olla muissa maailmoissa (Finnish), vetäytyä kuoreensa (Finnish), mennä sekaisin (Finnish), zona ut [slang] (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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    },
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    {
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      "form": "zombied out",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1981, Contemporary Keyboard VII:i–vi, page unknown\nAda Richter has compiled [Piano Classics] with the noble idea of helping younger students work on various aspects of technique without having to zombie out on drills and exercises."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1984, Kirkus Reviews, LII:xix-xxiv, page 986:",
          "text": "After Dennis got killed, my mom just kind of zombied out for a couple of years.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986, Jerome Charyn, War Cries Over Avenue C, page 271:",
          "text": "After I’ve been zombied out, will they hurt my dad?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, Robert R. McCammon, Stinger, page 321:",
          "text": "After the ‛copter had crashed on Cobre Road, [Cody] figured he’d zombied out.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, Patricia McConnel, Sing Soft, Sing Loud, page 60:",
          "text": "Black women just seem to do their time different. They sing more, goof around more. They don’t zombie out like the rest of us.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, PRISM international, XXX, page 73:",
          "text": "My man here keeps zombying out.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, Martin C. Moore-Ede, The Twenty-Four-Hour Society, page 128:",
          "text": "The autoworker who zombies out as your car-to-be passes by on the assembly line…contribute[s] to a loss in your personal productivity and sometimes your safety.",
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        }
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        "Become like a zombie in being listless, vacant, and unresponsive."
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        ],
        [
          "listless",
          "listless#English"
        ],
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          "vacant",
          "vacant#English"
        ],
        [
          "unresponsive",
          "unresponsive#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) Become like a zombie in being listless, vacant, and unresponsive."
      ],
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        "informal"
      ],
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "become listless, vacant and unresponsive",
          "word": "olla muissa maailmoissa"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "become listless, vacant and unresponsive",
          "word": "vetäytyä kuoreensa"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "become listless, vacant and unresponsive",
          "word": "mennä sekaisin"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "become listless, vacant and unresponsive",
          "tags": [
            "slang"
          ],
          "word": "zona ut"
        }
      ]
    }
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        "present",
        "singular",
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    {
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    {
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      "form": "zombied out",
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    }
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        {
          "text": "1981, Contemporary Keyboard VII:i–vi, page unknown\nAda Richter has compiled [Piano Classics] with the noble idea of helping younger students work on various aspects of technique without having to zombie out on drills and exercises."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1984, Kirkus Reviews, LII:xix-xxiv, page 986:",
          "text": "After Dennis got killed, my mom just kind of zombied out for a couple of years.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986, Jerome Charyn, War Cries Over Avenue C, page 271:",
          "text": "After I’ve been zombied out, will they hurt my dad?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, Robert R. McCammon, Stinger, page 321:",
          "text": "After the ‛copter had crashed on Cobre Road, [Cody] figured he’d zombied out.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, Patricia McConnel, Sing Soft, Sing Loud, page 60:",
          "text": "Black women just seem to do their time different. They sing more, goof around more. They don’t zombie out like the rest of us.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, PRISM international, XXX, page 73:",
          "text": "My man here keeps zombying out.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, Martin C. Moore-Ede, The Twenty-Four-Hour Society, page 128:",
          "text": "The autoworker who zombies out as your car-to-be passes by on the assembly line…contribute[s] to a loss in your personal productivity and sometimes your safety.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Become like a zombie in being listless, vacant, and unresponsive."
      ],
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        [
          "zombie",
          "zombie#English"
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        [
          "listless",
          "listless#English"
        ],
        [
          "vacant",
          "vacant#English"
        ],
        [
          "unresponsive",
          "unresponsive#English"
        ]
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        "(informal) Become like a zombie in being listless, vacant, and unresponsive."
      ],
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        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "become listless, vacant and unresponsive",
      "word": "olla muissa maailmoissa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "become listless, vacant and unresponsive",
      "word": "vetäytyä kuoreensa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "become listless, vacant and unresponsive",
      "word": "mennä sekaisin"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "become listless, vacant and unresponsive",
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ],
      "word": "zona ut"
    }
  ],
  "word": "zombie out"
}

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