bumsicle

English

Etymology

From bum (“homeless person”) +‎ -sicle.

Noun

bumsicle (plural bumsicles)

  1. (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[1] (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 Charlaine Harris, Toni L. P. Kelner, editors, Wolfsbane and Mistletoe‎[2], Ace Books, →ISBN:
      […] “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[3], White Light Press, →ISBN:
      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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