dead-eye
Americanverb (used with object)
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Sports. to make a successful shot or score with perfect aim; to kick, hit, or throw a ball or puck with great accuracy.
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to stare without expression or feeling.
noun
plural
dead-eyesOther Word Forms
- dead-eyed adjective
Example Sentences
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Nissanka and Karunaratne ran well until the latter was sold short by a tight single and Stone's dead-eye throw.
From BBC • Sep. 7, 2024
Finding a way to tamp down Clark’s prodigious output is a tough ask made harder by the fact she has complementary players around her such as center Monika Czinano and dead-eye shooter McKenna Warnock.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 30, 2022
But whenever the league decides its time for 60 new players to have their dreams realized, the Minnesota Timberwolves are 100%, dead-eye sure that they’ll have the first pick.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2020
He was a dead-eye long-range shooter in pickup basketball.
From Golf Digest • Jul. 25, 2019
Also, a rope formed into a wreath, with a heart or dead-eye seized in the bight, to which the stay is confined at the lower part.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
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