bumsicle
English
Etymology
bum (“homeless person”) + -sicle
Noun
bumsicle (plural bumsicles)
- (informal) A homeless person afflicted with hypothermia as a result of living outdoors in winter.
- 2003 September 30, laurelc [username], “[atxc-pi] NEW: Popsicle toes (1/1)”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative, Usenet:
- The 'bumsicle', as the jaded hospital doctors called him, had been frozen to the sidewalk and it took him and his partner a real solid effort to pry him off.
- 2008, Simon R. Green, "Lucy, at Christmastime", in Wolfsbane and Mistletoe (eds. Charlaine Harris & Toni L. P. Kelner), Ace Books (2008), →ISBN, unnumbered pages:
- […] “Apart from this guy, you been busy?”
- She shook her head. “Not the past two days. Not even a bumsicle.” She glanced at the steely sky. “That'll change. Snow tonight.”
- 2014, Richard Van Anderson, The Organ Takers, White Light Press (2014), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
- A bad decision, maybe, but as a resident he'd seen it all too often—“bumsicles” found unconscious on busy sidewalks, rushed to the operating room and placed on cardiopulmonary bypass so their blood could be warmed.
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