zombied-out

zombied-out

See also: zombied out

English

Alternative forms

• zombied out

Etymology

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

Adjective

zombied-out (not comparable)

1. (informal) Like a zombie in being sluggish, numb, listless, and vacant.
   • 1976, Lester Grinspoon and James B. Bakalar, Cocaine, page 130

     If you do a whole lot of it, you get sort of zombied out and you tend to stare at things.

   • 1979, Harvey W. Feldman, Michael Agar, and George M. Beschner [eds.], Angel Dust, page 87

     Sometimes I would see them real mellow and the next minute they’d be all zombied out.

   • 1980, Tom Lorenz, Guys Like Us, page 34

     As though he’d been passed out on the floor all these years or zombied out on weed like that idiot Ferd.

   • 1983, Mark Baker, Nam, page 79

     Adrenaline junkies, zombied out on fear, working the assembly line on the nod, they shuffled about the business of the war factory.

   • 1984, Common Lives/Lesbian Lives XI, page 33

     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.

   • 1985, Zyzzyva I, page 106

     I’ve been kind’ve zombied out recently. You know, numb. I just drift around the house listening to piano music.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:zombied-out.