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zombied-out

zombied-out adjective: like a zombie in being sluggish, numb, listless, and vacant.

Adjective

zombied-out (not comparable)

  1. (informal) Like a zombie in being sluggish, numb, listless, and vacant.
    • If you do a whole lot of it, you get sort of zombied out and you tend to stare at things.1976, Lester Grinspoon, James B. Bakalar, Cocaine, page 130
    • Sometimes I would see them real mellow and the next minute they’d be all zombied out.1979, Harvey W. Feldman, Michael Agar, George M. Beschner, editors, Angel Dust, page 87

Forms of zombied-out

alternative formzombied out

Origin of zombied-out

First attested in 1976; zombie + -ed + out; compare the later verb zombie out (1981).

Questions about zombied-out

What does zombied-out mean?
Zombied-out means like a zombie in being sluggish, numb, listless, and vacant.
What part of speech is zombied-out?
Zombied-out is an adjective.

Words near zombied-out in the dictionary

  1. zombie worms
  2. zombie's cucumber
  3. zombie-like
  4. zombied
  5. zombied out
  6. zombied-out
  7. zombiedom
  8. zombiefication
  9. zombiefied
  10. zombiefies
  11. zombiefy

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