Meaning of smombie | Babel Free

Definitions

A walking person using a cellphone who is oblivious to the world around them.

slang

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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

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