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zombie

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Noun

  1. A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his or her own.
  2. An apathetic or slow-witted person.
  3. A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion.
  4. Someone or something that should be dead but is not.
  5. An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement.
  6. 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.
  7. A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge.
  8. A cocktail of rum and fruit juices.
  9. A conscripted member of the Canadian military during World War II who was assigned to home defence rather than to combat in Europe.
  10. Marijuana, or similar drugs.
  11. A hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except in that it lacks conscious experience, qualia, or sentience.

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