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smombie

UK/ˈsmɒmˌbi/US/ˈsmɑmˌbi/

smombie noun: a walking person using a cellphone who is oblivious to the world around them.

Noun

smombie (plural smombies)

  1. (neologism, slang) A walking person using a cellphone who is oblivious to the world around them.
    • Some cities have now dedicated pedestrian lanes for people using smartphones, have embedded traffic signals in the pavement where smart phone users are more likely to see them, preventing their unwitting stepping out into traffic, and have erected smombie warning signs.2018, Leslie Paul Thiele, The Art and Craft of Political Theory, Routledge, →ISBN
    • Smombies are traffic hazards, prompting Augsburg, a city northeast of Munich, to embed warning lights in sidewalks to alert smombies of approaching streetcars.2020, Nicole Aschoff, The Smartphone Society: Technology, Power, and Resistance in the New Gilded Age

Synonyms of smombie

Forms of smombie

pluralsmombies

Origin of smombie

Blend of smartphone + zombie.

Words that rhyme with smombie

Questions about smombie

What does smombie mean?
Smombie means a walking person using a cellphone who is oblivious to the world around them.
What part of speech is smombie?
Smombie is a noun.
How do you pronounce smombie?
Smombie is pronounced /ˈsmɒmˌbi/ (UK).
What is the plural of smombie?
The plural of smombie is smombies.

Words near smombie in the dictionary

  1. smoltifying
  2. smolting
  3. smolts
  4. Smolyan
  5. SMOM
  6. smombie
  7. smombies
  8. Smonday
  9. Smondays
  10. smonk
  11. smonked

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