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bumsicle en · NOUN

Etymology

From bum (“homeless person”) + -sicle.

Meanings

1. (informal) A homeless person afflicted with hypothermia as a result of living outdoors in winter.
   • A bad decision, maybe, but as a resident he'd seen it all too often—“bumsicles” found unconscious on busy sidewalks, rushed to the operating room and placed on cardiopulmonary bypass so their blood could be warmed. 2014, Richard Van Anderson, The Organ Takers, White Light Press, →ISBN:
   • […] “Apart from this guy, you been busy?” She shook her head. “Not the past two days. Not even a bumsicle.” She glanced at the steely sky. “That'll change. Snow tonight.” 2008, Simon R. Green, “Lucy, at Christmastime”, in Charlaine Harris, Toni L. P. Kelner, editors, Wolfsbane and Mistletoe, Ace Books, →ISBN:
   • The 'bumsicle', as the jaded hospital doctors called him, had been frozen to the sidewalk and it took him and his partner a real solid effort to pry him off. 2003 September 30, laurelc [username], “[atxc-pi] NEW: Popsicle toes (1/1)”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

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