corpse

3 definitions • 4 examples

a dead body, usually of a person:

The actor had to play a corpse lying in a morgue.

to start laughing in a way you cannot control during a performance, or to make someone else do this; a word used by actors and performers:

The scene was so ludicrous it was hard to play without corpsing.

He had a tendency to corpse in the middle of the sketch.

She started giggling, with that helpless gurgle that has corpsed so many of her fellow actors.

a dead body, esp. of a human