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vitally challenged

vitally challenged noun: the dead; those who have died.

Noun

vitally challenged pl (plural only)

  1. (euphemistic, humorous, plural, plural-only) The dead; those who have died
    • imagine... 85 years old Cohen the Barbarian and his "gray horde"... death as DEATH, an antropomorphic^([sic]) personification, that is... meetings of the "vitally challenged (= the undead)"...1997 June 12, Sascha LC Erni, “Tips-of-the-hat (was: Mythos - A shared world?)”, in alt.horror.cthulhu (Usenet), message-ID <Pine.LNX.3.95.970612144354.13110E-100000@goblin.studi.unizh.ch>
    • I blame the new hard line on welfare for driving driving^([sic]) the vitally challenged onto the streets instead of leaving them in State run graveyards1998 May 8, Dabe the Hobbit, “Re: somebody please take this necronomicon away”, in alt.necronomicon (Usenet), message-ID <3552F6A5.9A96933B@pls.bris.ac.uk>

Questions about vitally challenged

What does vitally challenged mean?
Vitally challenged means the dead; those who have died.
What part of speech is vitally challenged?
Vitally challenged is a noun.

Words near vitally challenged in the dictionary

  1. vitalizes
  2. vitalizing
  3. vitalizingly
  4. Vitallium
  5. vitally
  6. vitally challenged
  7. vitalness
  8. vitalometer
  9. vitalometry
  10. vitals
  11. vitamer

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