ZOMBIE

also zombi noun Etymology: Louisiana Creole or Haitian Creole zonbi, of Bantu origin; akin to Kimbundu nzúmbe ghost Date: circa 1871 1. (usually zombi) the supernatural power that according to voodoo belief may enter into and reanimate a dead body, a will-less and speechless human in the West Indies capable only of automatic movement who is held to have died and been supernaturally reanimated, 2. a person held to resemble the so-called walking dead, a person markedly strange in appearance or behavior, a mixed drink made of several kinds of rum, liqueur, and fruit juice, ~like adjective