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corpsing 

From the theater: to laugh uncontrollably and not be able to stop. (Source: Cate Blanchette on the 12/04/06 Tonight Show). Wikipedia defines it as follows: "Corpsing is a theatrical slang term used to describe when an actor breaks character during a scene - usually by laughing or forgetting his or her lines, or by causing another cast member to do so. Though the origin of the term is unknown, it refers to almost literally murdering the scene.

A BBC TV program on 18 November 2006 stated an opinion that the term "corpsing" originated when there was a corpse on stage, acted by a living actor: there was sometimes a tendency to try to make that actor laugh."
"Hugo Weaving was in a production of King Lear and he could just sat there corpsing."
corpsing by Tom McNamee December 7, 2006
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corpsing 

To fornicate with someone who is not taking an active role, usually out of nervousness or disinterest in their partner, but because of its macabre allusion to necrophilia, it is not unforeseeable that it could be because the person is non-consenting.
"Man, last night I was with Amy, and when we went up to her bed, she just laid there like a corpse; it wasn't no fucking, it was corpsing!
corpsing by amik February 5, 2007
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Corpsing 

The act of sleeping so deeply that one looks like a dead body.
My roommate David was so tired that he was corpsing on the ground, in front of the door.
Corpsing by First Stall September 17, 2011

corpsing 

To have deathly features and move about the world.
Hey that bald guy is corpsing around New York.
corpsing by Living Dead Girl Wow October 11, 2009

Corpsing 

When a man performs either varginal and anal sex and cock goes flaccid and fake a organism
“It was so embarrassing last night I was corpsing while fucking Beth”
Corpsing by The blue baller April 21, 2018

Corpsing 

The act of laying still during missionary sex
Guy 1: Damn I heard you got with that hot girl last night?

Guy 2: Yeah man, but she spent all night Corpsing
Corpsing by Daddy Turk May 13, 2025

corpsin' it 

Sleeping all day while the sun is out. Usually after a long night of drinking, smoking, etc. There are other legitimate reasons for corpsin' it, but who cares about those?
Dude, Wes just came back from a another drunken night. He's definitely gonna be corpsin' it tomorrow.
corpsin' it by McFinder April 25, 2009