bumsicle

English

Etymology

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.