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zombie box en · NOUN

Etymology

A possible calque of Russian зомбоящик (zombojaščik).

Meanings

1. (derogatory, slang, uncommon) A television.
   • More contemporary Russian fears are centered on the ability of mass media to essentially colonize human consciousness, turning the individual into a function of the "zombie-box" (or TV), as is the case in Viktor Pelevin's Generation П. 2020, Keith A. Livers, Conspiracy Culture, Post-Soviet Paranoia and the Russian Imagination, page 23:
   • taking a form more frequently thought of as anathematical to poetry (Iain Chrichton Smith, for example, lambasted the TV as a deadening zombie box in "At the TV") and seeing in it parallels and possibilities. 2002, Galloway Kyle, Harold Monro, Stephen Phillips (editors), Poetry Review, Volume 92, page 60:
   • Nichelle was wary as she set purse and a couple of small shopping bags on the table. "Great. Thanks?" He didn't say anything else, just kept watching the zombie box. 2014, Chris Marie Green, Another One Bites the Dust, page 202:

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