dead-nuts
English
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editEtymology
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Adjective
editdead-nuts (not comparable)
- (informal) Precise, exact, completely accurate.
- 2005, Michael Dregni, editor, Harley-Davidson: The Good, the Bad, and the Legendary, →ISBN, page 121:
- Bator, after hundreds of hours spent studying publicity stills, re-running tapes of the movie, and talking to cast and crew members, came up with a deadnuts duplication. Late last year, an exact replica of the Hopper chopper was completed, too.
Adverb
editdead-nuts (not comparable)
- (informal) Precisely, exactly, completely.
- 1890 June 7, “Doubtful”, in Punch, or the London Charivari[1], volume 98, page 270:
- Jockey: My opinion's of little account,
But I don't mind admitting, yer honour,
I am not dead nuts on my mount.
- 2000 June 11, Herb McCormick, “The Boating Report: Amid Big Names, an Underrated Sailor Wins Off Newport”, in New York Times[2], retrieved 5 January 2016:
- And all the boats are dead-nuts even.
- 2012, David Freed, chapter 13, in Flat Spin[3], →ISBN:
- I nailed the localizer dead-nuts center, squared the glideslope indicator, slowed my airspeed and rode the needles all the way down at a steady ninety knots.
Synonyms
edit- accurately, perfectly, slap bang; see also Thesaurus:exactly