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dead-eye

dead-eye is the alternative spelling of deadeye.

Meaning of deadeye

Adjective

deadeye (not comparable)

  1. Very accurate in shooting or throwing.
    • Gross, only a 20-year-old junior, is a deadeye passer, a poised runner and a quick-thinking field general.1961 November 2, Jerry Green, “Gross Dwarfed, But Not in Ability”, in The Milwaukee Sentinel
  2. (concerning a stare) Cold; unfriendly.
    • The deadeye stare of the bassist was enough to make any normal person run.2004 July 28, Emma Field, “Sons and Daughters / The Archie Bronson Outfit, ICA, London”, in The Independent

See all 5 meanings of deadeye

Forms of dead-eye

pluraldead-eyes

Phrases with dead-eye

Questions about dead-eye

What is dead-eye the alternative spelling of?
Dead-eye is the alternative spelling of deadeye.

Words near dead-eye in the dictionary

  1. dead-ended
  2. dead-ender
  3. dead-enders
  4. dead-ending
  5. dead-ends
  6. dead-eye
  7. dead-eye Dick
  8. dead-eye Dicks
  9. dead-eyed
  10. dead-eyes
  11. dead-handed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dead-eye (page history and authors); deadeye (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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