Complete Definition of "corpsicle"

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English

Etymology
�corpse� + �popsicle�
A coinage of author w:Frederik Pohl|Frederik Pohl in The Age of the Pussyfoot (1969)

Noun
en-noun

  1. a person who has been cryogenically frozen in the hope of later revival in science fiction

#* 1976, w:Larry Niven|Larry Niven, A World Out of Time:
#*:'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.

References
Corpsicle by Larry Niven from A World Out of Time

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