assuming room temperature

Medical speak for recently dead.

Bed two should be free soon, the dude with the GSW is busy assuming room temperature.

by ohsu September 25, 2005

assume room temperature

Die; cease to inhabit the planet.

On the day that Ted "The Swimmer" Kennedy would assume room temperature, Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment.

by The Underground Conservative October 17, 2011