smombie

Blend of smartphone +‎ zombie

smombie (plural smombies)

1. (slang) A walking person using a cellphone who is oblivious to the world around them.

   Synonym: smartphone zombie

   • 2018, Leslie Paul Thiele, The Art and Craft of Political Theory‎, Routledge, →ISBN:

     Some cities have now dedicated pedestrian lanes for people using smartphones, have embedded traffic signals in the pavement where smart phone users are more likely to see them, preventing their unwitting stepping out into traffic, and have erected smombie warning signs.

   • 2020, Nicole Aschoff, The Smartphone Society: Technology, Power, and Resistance in the New Gilded Age:

     Smombies are traffic hazards, prompting Augsburg, a city northeast of Munich, to embed warning lights in sidewalks to alert smombies of approaching streetcars.

• dumbwalking

• bommies, mombies

Blend of smartphone +‎ zombie. Possibly borrowed, with German and English being likely donor languages.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsmɔm.bi/

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• Hyphenation: smom‧bie

smombie m (plural smombies)

1. smombie, smartphone zombie (walking smartphone user who is oblivious to the surrounding world)