What it means
Zombieing is when someone who ghosted you suddenly rises from the dead months later, sliding back into your messages like nothing happened with a breezy hey stranger. The contact you had buried is somehow texting again.
Usage examples
"He ghosted me in spring and started zombieing me in autumn with a hey you."
"Classic zombieing, three months of silence then a casual good morning."
"He disappeared for half a year and now he's zombieing with a random hey, you up?"
"Nah, don't fall for the zombieing, babe. If they went silent once, they can do it again."
Where it comes from
Built from zombie plus the dating slang pattern that gave us words like ghosting and orbiting. It took off in online dating talk in the 2010s to name that exact move where someone vanishes, then lurches back into your DMs acting weirdly casual.
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