Despite living through a zombie apocalypse, "The Walking Dead" acts as as if the word doesn't exist.
That was creator Robert Kirkman's plan all along. He wrote the series with no intent to ever publish the word.
"We wanted to give you a sense that 'The Walking Dead' takes place in a universe where zombie fiction doesn't exist. No one inside 'The Walking Dead' has seen a [George Romero] movie, so they can't get the rules from that,"he told Conan O'Brien in 2016.
With the comics still going and the TV show in its eighth season, the minds behind "The Walking Dead" have had to come up with a lot of other ways to describe these monsters. Keep reading to see the many ways the show has avoided using the word zombie.
Amy Daire contributed to an earlier version of this story.
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1. Walkers
This is the most common word in the series across both the TV show and comic. It was used on the TV show when Morgan explained the undead to Rick. Glenn used it in the next episode while talking to Rick through the radio in the tank, proving that it was already a common term in the area.
2. Biters
The term "biters" is used by the Woodbury group in both the comic and TV series, as well as Caesar Martinez's group. In the comics, Dr. Stevens' assistant, Alice, says her original group called the zombies "biters" because no matter what, they all bite.
3. Geeks
In the beginning of the show, Glenn Rhee, Merle Dixon, T-Dog, and Shane all used the word, but the writers have steered clear of it in later seasons.
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