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dead-on
[ ded-on, -awn ]
adjective
- exactly right, accurate, or pertinent:
The film director has a dead-on feel for characterization.
Word History and Origins
Origin of dead-on1
Example Sentences
He was also a dead-on mimic, the kind of guy who could eavesdrop on a snatch of conversation and instantly spoof both ends.
The April prediction of $30 billion in losses, in other words, had been dead-on.
Reading these dead-on descriptions, a runner feels a pleasurable sensation of recognition.
Any dead-on depiction of real squalor is open to the accusation of "using India" as eye-catching wallpaper.
As far as could be seen, she was holding her own well in what had now become a dead-on stern chase.
What wind there was blew dead on-shore, which was not as the skipper would have had it.
Then it was hit dead-on by what must have been at least a hundred-pound high explosive rocket.
Later on his meaning was illustrated more fully on a dark night in a tight corner during a dead on-shore gale.
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