deadass
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From dead + -ass (“used to intensify an adjective”). Some senses from an ellipsis of dead serious + ass. Originated in New York City, and popularized around the late 1990s–2000s.
Base: dead
Affixes: -ass
Inflected forms:
form: more deadass
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most deadass
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: dead ass
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: dead-ass
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: deaduzz
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: dead ass
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: dead-ass
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: deaduzz
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: deadasses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dead ass
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dead-ass
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: deaduzz
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having very little activity; dead.
pos: adj
examples: I could tell what you two had right off the bat. It was the same with me and my Rosario. That's what keeps me goin in this deadass joint, because there's no way she don't show someday and when that day comes the round man hauls some vino outta one of them shrouds he uses as filin cabinets or you're gonna see him walkin around with a brand new face.
On my way back to town I get to thinking about what Sandee said about Kirby: 'Fix the bastard'. Hmm...maybe we should. After all, what else is there to do on a Friday night in our deadass town?
Yeah, beats this deadass place anyway. I'll go.
gloss: Genuine; real. Used as a negative intensifier.
pos: adj
examples: He bellowed at us, yelling that he was fucked if he was going to let a group of dead-ass wankers spoil his time off.
"Mad Dog" Maurice Vachon, one of the awa's top stars for years, wasn't what you would call a great worker. He was as unorthodox as hell, but his interviews were such a deadass shoot about how mean he was, how ferocious he was and how he was going to tear you limb from limb that no one watching his promos doubted him.
Anybody'd come along an' spied you deadass drunk on the plain woulda took yer hair, yer ponies, an' yer stash.
gloss: Dead serious.
pos: adj
examples: You need to quit talking about my mama. I'm deadass.
"Oh yeah, Dior. Tell ya' boss if he like his life then he better keep his distance from you. Deadass," He said from the bathroom and my eyes widened.
Eilish talks like an Instagram caption come to life — everything is "fire" or "trash," bro, and she is always "deadass."
this look is still her best outfit she's ever worn and i'm being deadass
gloss: Directly; dead on.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: As he started inside, thinking only of fresh water and bed, Frenchy said, "Hurry back and I'll help you fix the baits." / "We're not through?" / "Oh, man, Joe keeps his pots at work, not deadass on deck."
I slapped the Mexican on the helmet— that was the signal to fire—and whoosh! that 106 round hit dead ass on top of the gooks. Whooo, the first time! The other guys scrambled up out of that trench and jumped all over us.
"Sometimes," he observed seriously, "you can't tell truth when it's staring you deadass in the face. But if it's truth, that's it, that's a fact, you know it's truth, you can't hide from it, you pull that shit and it'll get you every time 'cause truth clicks with this way deep."
gloss: Really; seriously; actually.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I was deadass starving.
"Im positively deadass tired,' she says, rushing over to us. "Babies, there just aint no one at the 1-2-3—someone's been spreading rumors that theres so much junk being sold there that the cops are gonna knock it over any day!"
Given Embiid's history of trolling and quotable moments, the internet interpreted Embiid's comments as a joke. But the big man later reaffirmed his intentions on The Ringer NBA Show with Kevin O'Connor. "Yeah, deadass. I'm really serious," Embiid said. "I feel like I can do anything on a basketball court."
i will deadass take my own soap to somebody house😂
gloss: A lazy or unenergetic person.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: […] us women know which man has got the spring and who and which is the unfortunate dead ass […]
He comes onto the ward with his tight reddish-blond curls tumbling out from under his cap, cracking jokes and trying to get some action going among these deadasses in the loony bin.
He's pretty smart in school, like Rodney Lippett, except Rodney's such a deadass.
This angered him at first, and more than once he had uttered such things to himself as "sore loser," "just plain jealous," or "too bad you've got a deadass at home yourself."
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