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vegetable noun- a person who is mentally and physically incapacitated to a degree that renders the comparison with a plant organism fair if cruel UK, 1921
- Got a brother, Anthony. He’s a fuckin’ vegetable. In ‘77 he smoked a bag of dust he bought from a dago. He jumped off our roof. — New Jack City, 1990
- Your grandmother was a 92-year-old vegetable. Only the machines were keeping her alive. — C.D. Payne, Youth in Revolt, p. 206, 1993
- The prison board is blatantly railroading you into a hospital for the sole purpose of turning you into vegetables. — Natural Born Killers, 1994
- a person with an inactive, undemanding lifestyle UK, 2001
A derogatory use arising from the semi-conventional medical sense above.
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