corpsicle means A person who has been cryonically frozen in the hope of later revival. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
corpsicle is pronounced /ˈkɔːp.sɪ.kəl/.
Etymology
Blend of corpse + popsicle. The cryogenic sense is a coinage by author Frederik Pohl in The Age of the Pussyfoot (1969).
noun
- A person who has been cryonically frozen in the hope of later revival.“'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.”
- A frozen corpse.“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.”