Schiavo

n.

1. Terri Schiavo, the Florida women who became a vegetable when her heart failed due to a condition brought on by her eating disorder. She became the center of a media circus and political pawn when her parents fought against her husband in the courts to try to keep her alive (her husband contended that she wouldn't want to be kept alive in such a state.) Her husband won and her feeding tube was removed. On March 31, 2005 she died of starvation.
2. A person who is in need of a feeding tube to stay alive; a vegetable.
3. An act of posing as a vegetable or coma patient (often for a picture); "On three, everybody do the Schiavo!"

adj.

1. Vegetative; physically inactive; "He was so stoned he looked schiavo."
2. To be in need of a feeding tube.

v. intr.

1. Slang. To be extremly hungry; starving to death; “Lets eat, I'm totally schiavo”