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- noun A
person who has beencryogenically frozen in the hope of laterrevival in science fiction.
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Examples
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That word corpsicle has to be an advertising stunt.
Minnesota Menage Jack Swenson 2010
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It will never be as shocking as the original "corpsicle" (and subsequent "headsicle") ideas.
The Speculist Phil Bowermaster 2010
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I think the term that you are looking for is "corpsicle". because there's hardly any DNA left in those fossils, let alone anything that's not damaged beyond recognition.
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Sad to see him as a corpsicle though, he is/was a great bad guy.
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If only she had kept some back, she wouldn't be a corpsicle right now.
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His fall cracked out the ice chunk containing the body, and backup patrolmen used long poles from a sculling shed down the river to pull in the corpsicle.
DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010
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His fall cracked out the ice chunk containing the body, and backup patrolmen used long poles from a sculling shed down the river to pull in the corpsicle.
DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010
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His fall cracked out the ice chunk containing the body, and backup patrolmen used long poles from a sculling shed down the river to pull in the corpsicle.
DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010
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Mira is woken at intervals over a couple of centuries, makes friends with a man who later admits he could never afford to revive her, and also learns that her lover is a corpsicle in the same facility.
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His fall cracked out the ice chunk containing the body, and backup patrolmen used long poles from a sculling shed down the river to pull in the corpsicle.
DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010
palooka commented on the word corpsicle
Slang for a corpse that has been cryonically preserved (frozen). Advocates of cryonics find it an offensive term. Per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpsicle
February 17, 2007
seanahan commented on the word corpsicle
see also copsik
February 17, 2007
alexz commented on the word corpsicle
spotted on the TV show Elementary (US) Mar 12, 2015
March 13, 2015