deadeye
/ˈdɛdaɪ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.80 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "Gross, only a 20-year-old junior, is a deadeye passer, a poised runner and a quick-thinking field general."
- "Help in that department should come from highly touted freshman Jason Kapono, a 6'7" deadeye shooter who made 211 threes in high school."
- "The old man was a natural sniper, a deadeye shooter even as a boy, and he served with my great uncle in the First World War."
- "The deadeye stare of the bassist was enough to make any normal person run."
- "Outlandish in its violence and its conceit, "The Brave One" would be an interesting addendum to Foster's career even without its biographical frisson, without the image of Erica holding a gun with a deadeye stare […]"
- "He taught both my mother and me to shoot, taught my mother so well that she became a better shot than he was--a real deadeye."
Etymology
From dead + eye. See glossary of nautical terms of "deadrise" for usage of "dead" to describe a stationary object or spatial stability of an object relative to motion. See nautical definition of "eye" for usage referring to the foremost part of a ship's bow that aims its orientation. For biological eye stabilization during head and neck movement, see vestibulo-ocular reflex
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈdɛdaɪ/