Meaning

1 senses
  1. With just enough weight for a ball to drop into a pocket, or come to rest in a precisely determined position.

    He rolled the red in dead weight, and now he's nicely on the blue.

Examples

2 sentences
  1. The new employee is dead weight.

  2. The extra luggage was a dead weight.

See also

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