zombied-out

alternative zombied out

1. informalnot comparableLike a zombie in being sluggish, numb, listless, and vacant.

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

   1979, Harvey W. Feldman, Michael Agar, George M. Beschner, editors, Angel Dust, page 87

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

   1976, Lester Grinspoon, James B. Bakalar, Cocaine, page 130

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

   1980, Tom Lorenz, Guys Like Us, page 34

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

   1983, Mark Baker, Nam, page 79

   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.

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

   I’ve been kind’ve^([sic]) zombied out recently. You know, numb. I just drift around the house listening to piano music.

   1985, Zyzzyva, I, page 106