corpsicle
nounUK /ˈkɔːp.sɪ.kəl/ · US /ˈkɔɹp.sɪ.kəl/
Etymology Blend of corpse + popsicle. The cryogenic sense is a coinage by author Frederik Pohl in The Age of the Pussyfoot (1969).
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Literature, Media, Publishing, Science fiction 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:
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- I won't turn you into a corpsicle and hope somebody knows how to fix you in a hundred years.2010, Greg Bear, Vitals:
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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:
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- But if he wandered away in a confused state when the dark came on, he's a corpsicle by now.”2007, Julia Spencer-Fleming, Out of the Deep I Cry: