zombie

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
zombie
    n 1: a dead body that has been brought back to life by a
         supernatural force [syn: {zombi}, {zombie}, {living dead}]
    2: (voodooism) a spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a
       dead body [syn: {zombi}, {zombie}, {zombi spirit}, {zombie
       spirit}]
    3: a god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped especially
       in West Indies [syn: {zombi}, {zombie}, {snake god}]
    4: someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic
       way; "only an automaton wouldn't have noticed" [syn:
       {automaton}, {zombi}, {zombie}]
    5: several kinds of rum with fruit juice and usually apricot
       liqueur [syn: {zombie}, {zombi}]
from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
zombie
 n.

   1. [Unix] A process that has died but has not yet relinquished its
   process table slot (because the parent process hasn't executed a
   wait(2) for it yet). These can be seen in ps(1) listings occasionally.
   Compare {orphan}.

   2. A machine, especially someone's {home box}, that has been cracked
   and is being used as part of a second-stage attack by miscreants
   trying to mask their home IP address. Especially used of machines
   being exploited in large gangs for a mechanized denial-of-service
   attack like Tribe Flood Network; the image that goes with this is of a
   veritable army of zombies mindlessly doing the bidding of a
   necromancer.
from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
zombie

   1. <operating system> {zombie process}.

   2. <chat> A {ghost}.

   [{Jargon File}]

   (1997-10-08)
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
65 Moby Thesaurus words for "zombie":
      Masan, apparition, appearance, astral, astral spirit, banshee,
      boob, case, character, chump, clod, control, departed spirit,
      disembodied spirit, dolt, duck, dullard, duppy, dybbuk, eidolon,
      form, ghost, goon, grateful dead, guide, hant, haunt, idolum,
      immateriality, incorporeal, incorporeal being, incorporeity, larva,
      lemures, manes, materialization, moron, nitwit, oaf, oddball,
      oddity, oni, original, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, poltergeist,
      presence, quiz, revenant, shade, shadow, shape, shrouded spirit,
      specter, spectral ghost, spirit, spook, sprite, theophany,
      unsubstantiality, vision, walking dead man, wandering soul,
      wraith
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