Meaning

2 senses

  1. (not comparable)Directly; dead on.

  2. (not comparable)Really; seriously; actually.

    I was deadass starving.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Sami was looking deadass at Layla.

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Origin

From dead + -ass (“used to intensify an adjective”). Some senses from an ellipsis of dead-

From dead + -ass (“used to intensify an adjective”). Some senses from an ellipsis of dead-ass serious, from dead serious + -ass. Originated in New York City, and popularized around the late 1990s–2000s.

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See also

neighbours in the dictionary
deadA2deadbeatdeadenC2deadliest

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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