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corpsicles

corpsicles is the plural of corpsicle.

Meaning of 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
  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

Questions about corpsicles

What is corpsicles the plural of?
Corpsicles is the plural of corpsicle.

Words near corpsicles in the dictionary

  1. corpses-to-be
  2. corpseses
  3. corpsey
  4. corpseys
  5. corpsicle
  6. corpsicles
  7. corpsing
  8. corpsman
  9. corpsmen
  10. corpspeak
  11. corpspeople

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