zombie out

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Etymology[edit]

First attested in 1981; zombie + out; compare the earlier adjective zombied-out (1976).

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zombie out (third-person singular simple present zombies out, present participle zombying out or zombieing out, simple past and past participle zombied out)

  1. (informal) Become like a zombie in being listless, vacant, and unresponsive.
    • 1981, Contemporary Keyboard VII:i–vi, page unknown
      Ada Richter has compiled [Piano Classics] with the noble idea of helping younger students work on various aspects of technique without having to zombie out on drills and exercises.
    • 1984, Kirkus Reviews, LII:xix-xxiv, page 986:
      After Dennis got killed, my mom just kind of zombied out for a couple of years.
    • 1986, Jerome Charyn, War Cries Over Avenue C, page 271:
      After I’ve been zombied out, will they hurt my dad?
    • 1988, Robert R. McCammon, Stinger, page 321:
      After the ‛copter had crashed on Cobre Road, [Cody] figured he’d zombied out.
    • 1989, Patricia McConnel, Sing Soft, Sing Loud, page 60:
      Black women just seem to do their time different. They sing more, goof around more. They don’t zombie out like the rest of us.
    • 1991, PRISM international, XXX, page 73:
      My man here keeps zombying out.
    • 1993, Martin C. Moore-Ede, The Twenty-Four-Hour Society, page 128:
      The autoworker who zombies out as your car-to-be passes by on the assembly line…contribute[s] to a loss in your personal productivity and sometimes your safety.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:zombie out.

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