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zombied-out en · ADJ

Etymology

First attested in 1976; zombie + -ed + out; compare the later verb zombie out (1981).

Meanings

1. (informal, not-comparable) Like a zombie in being sluggish, numb, listless, and vacant.
   • If you do a whole lot of it, you get sort of zombied out and you tend to stare at things. 1976, Lester Grinspoon, James B. Bakalar, Cocaine, page 130:
   • I’ve been kind’ve^([sic]) zombied out recently. You know, numb. I just drift around the house listening to piano music. 1985, Zyzzyva, I, page 106:
   • I saw my friends go into a room, an hour later they’d be in the lounge acting crazy: sedate as wandering death, completely inarticulate and just zombied-out. 1984, Common Lives/Lesbian Lives, XI, page 33:
   • As though he’d been passed out on the floor all these years or zombied out on weed like that idiot Ferd. 1980, Tom Lorenz, Guys Like Us, page 34:
   • Adrenaline junkies, zombied out on fear, working the assembly line on the nod, they shuffled about the business of the war factory. 1983, Mark Baker, Nam, page 79:
   • Sometimes I would see them real mellow and the next minute they’d be all zombied out. 1979, Harvey W. Feldman, Michael Agar, George M. Beschner, editors, Angel Dust, page 87:

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