The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word ZOMBIE
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What does ZOMBIE mean?
ZOMBIE noun- A snake god or fetish in religions of West Africa and elsewhere.
- (voodoo, superstition) A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his/her own.
- A deceased person who becomes reanimate to attack the living.
- An apathetic person.
- A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion.
- An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement.
- A process or task which has terminated but has not been removed from the list of processes, typically because it has an unresponsive parent process.
- A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge.
- A cocktail of rum and fruit juices.
- A conscripted member of the Canadian military during World War II who was assigned to home defence rather than to combat in Europe.
- Marijuana, or similar drugs.
- A hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except in that it lacks conscious experience, qualia, or sentience.