corpsicle

noun /ˈkɔːp.sɪ.kəl/

1. A person who has been cryonically frozen in the hope of later revival.

   '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.

   'Your newspapers called you people corpsicles,' said the blond man. 'I never understood what the tapes meant by that.'

2. A frozen corpse.

   informal

   It started when a janitor found a corpsicle floating in a rooftop swimming pool next to Central Park one August morning. A stiff, but I mean stiff.

Where it comes from

Blend of corpse + popsicle. The cryogenic sense is a coinage by author Frederik Pohl in The Age of the Pussyfoot (1969).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry corpsicle (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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