corpsicle
/ˈkɔɹp.sɪ.kəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who has been cryonically frozen in the hope of later revival.
Example Sentences
- "'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."
- "There are dozens of companies that will turn you into a human corpsicle and store your chilled earthly remains indefinitely."
- "I won't turn you into a corpsicle and hope somebody knows how to fix you in a hundred years."
- "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."
- "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."
- "But if he wandered away in a confused state when the dark came on, he's a corpsicle by now.”"
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkɔɹp.sɪ.kəl/
- British English: /ˈkɔːp.sɪ.kəl/