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pod person

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pod person
n pl pod people
Informal a person who behaves in a strange esp mechanical way, as if not fully human
[from the science-fiction film Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956; remade 1978) in which individual humans are replaced by alien replicas grown in giant pods]


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A pod person, in at least two science fiction novels and movies, is an alien.
When the process is complete the leftover body is a shell and the new pod person looks and sounds just like someone you know and trust.
Eyes glazed over, walking around snarling at Santa Claus and carolers - nodding in mutual recognition whenever we pass another pod person.
 
 
 
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