Citations:zompire

Noun: "(slang) a zombie-vampire hybrid"

 * 2008, Laura Northup, Murder at the Manor, Xlibris (2008), ISBN 9781450080644, page 137:
 * What if he were one of those vampires she'd been researching at the library? Then, what was he doing out during the day. Maybe he was a zombie. But he didn't look like a zombie, not really. Maybe he was that rare hybrid form of animorph very much respected among the Undead. Yes...he might be a zompire!
 * 2009, Tate Hallaway, Dead If I Do, Berkley Books (2009), ISBN 9781101046463, page 70:
 * "The zompire is quite the creation," Parrish said. "Yours, I take it?"
 * 2012, Alexia Purdy, Disarming, Lyrical Lit. Publishing (2012), unnumbered page:
 * He'd wanted to clear each casino out from the zompire infestations, but knew he'd never be able to do it alone.
 * 2013, Lorraine Kennedy, Skinwalkers: Song of Wolves: Volume 1, unnumbered page:
 * “Who knows? I've never actually dealt with zombies before. If I get bit ... it might turn me into a zompire!” he said, only half jokingly.
 * 2013, Patrick Roberts, The Strangers, unnumbered page:
 * "I thought they said dead men tell no tales." Jessica frowned, "Why couldn't he be a zombie or a vampire. Here's a thought, it could be a zompire. It would be less confusing."
 * 2015, Greg Garrett, Entertaining Judgment: The Afterlife in Popular Imagination, Oxford University Press (2015), ISBN 9780199335909, page 39:
 * Whether we speak of the sexually charged monsters of the classic Dracula variety, the sparkly vampires of the Twilight novels and films, or the “'zompires” of Justin Cronin's The Passage, I Am Legend, and the Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic, vampires seem to be everywhere in recent years,
 * 2015, James Leck, After Dark, Kids Can Press (2015), ISBN 9781771381109, page 198:
 * Behind her, ten other zompires snarled at me, baring their own thorny fangs.
 * Behind her, ten other zompires snarled at me, baring their own thorny fangs.