weekend at bernie's
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.69 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A situation in which someone pretends that a dead person (or by extension, any entity) is still alive.
Slang
verb
To move a dead body, or otherwise a nonresponsive person (such as due to illness or intoxication), while pretending that the person is alive and conscious.
Slang
Example Sentences
- "A Weekend at Bernie's acted out on the gray and black stage of frozen stone. Someone laughed and was immediately hushed by their own sense of shame."
- "All they had to show for themselves was a Weekend at Bernie's economy, with sunglasses and Hawaiian shirts on zombie companies supposed to give the impression of life and health"
- "John McCain went so far as to say he would pull a Weekend at Bernie's if Chairman Greenspan died while McCain was president."
- "I could only imagine that Rupert L. was standing Rupert P. upright with one hand and waving Rupert P.'s arm with the other. (And seeing the pictures later, I was totally right.) Rupert P. had been Weekend at Bernie's-ed after all."
- "After being Weekend at Bernie's'd by his closest doctors, Washington wasn't feeling right. He told the three doctors that he felt like his life was over and to let him go."
- "Jane supported his weight on one side, while Ethan propped up the other, and they practically had to Weekend at Bernie's him down the alley between the ice cream parlor and the praline shop."