smombie en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈsmɑmˌbi/ (General-American)
- /ˈsmɒmˌbi/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
Blend of smartphone + zombie.
Meanings
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(neologism, slang) A walking person using a cellphone who is oblivious to the world around them.
Some cities have now dedicated pedestrian lanes for people using smartphones, have embedded traffic signals in the pavement where smart phone users are more likely to see them, preventing their unwitting stepping out into traffic, and have erected smombie warning signs.
2018, Leslie Paul Thiele, The Art and Craft of Political Theory, Routledge, →ISBN:Smombies are traffic hazards, prompting Augsburg, a city northeast of Munich, to embed warning lights in sidewalks to alert smombies of approaching streetcars.
2020, Nicole Aschoff, The Smartphone Society: Technology, Power, and Resistance in the New Gilded Age:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| smombies | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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Translations (5)
nl smombie (smartphone zombie — see also smartphone zombie) · ko 스몸비 (smartphone zombie — see also smartphone zombie) · es smombie (smartphone zombie — see also smartphone zombie) · it smombie (smartphone zombie — see also smartphone zombie) · de Smombie (smartphone zombie — see also smartphone zombie)