corpsicle

Noun

corpsicle (plural corpsicles)

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.1976, Larry Niven, A World Out of Time
   • There are dozens of companies that will turn you into a human corpsicle and store your chilled earthly remains indefinitely.2007, Daniel H. Wilson, Where's My Jetpack?:, page 176
2. (informal) A frozen corpse.
   • 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.1992, Spider Robinson, Lady Slings the Booze, page 9
   • Eventually, the much-travelled corpsicle arrived back at the family farm, where she was stripped of her plastic shroud and set on the lawn to thaw out before being laid to rest.1995, The Bermudian - Volume 66, Issues 7-12, page 13