deadass

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.21 in modern English

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American usage; Slang

"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."
"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."

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.

more deadass (comparative) most deadass (superlative) dead ass (alternative) dead-ass (alternative) deaduzz (alternative) deadasses (plural)

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