corpsicle

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɔːp.sɪ.kəl/|[ˈkɔːp.sɪ.kl̩]    美 /ˈkɔɹp.sɪ.kəl/|[ˈkɔɹp.sɪ.kl̩]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
  2. A frozen corpse. informal
    — 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.

词形变化

corpsicles plural

词源

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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