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dead-nuts

dead-nuts adjective: precise, exact, completely accurate.

Adjective

dead-nuts (not comparable)

  1. (informal) Precise, exact, completely accurate.
    • 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.2005, Michael Dregni, editor, Harley-Davidson: The Good, the Bad, and the Legendary, →ISBN, page 121
    • “Told you that bitch was trouble. You gotta listen to old Mike.”
      “Okay, you were dead-nuts on that one.”2011, Peter Pavia, chapter 13, in Dutch Uncle, →ISBN

Adverb

dead-nuts (not comparable)

  1. (informal) Precisely, exactly, completely.
    • Jockey: My opinion's of little account,
      But I don't mind admitting, yer honour,
      I am not dead nuts on my mount.1890 June 7, “Doubtful”, in Punch, or the London Charivari^([ftp://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/gutenberg.org/3/3/2/9/33292/33292-h/33292-h.htm]), volume 98, page 270
    • And all the boats are dead-nuts even.2000 June 11, Herb McCormick, “The Boating Report: Amid Big Names, an Underrated Sailor Wins Off Newport”, in New York Times, retrieved 05 Jan 2016

Examples of dead-nuts in a sentence

  • 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.2012, David Freed, chapter 13, in Flat Spin, →ISBN:
  • “But I'm not having this conversation unless I'm dead-nuts sure that each of you would be willing to listen.”2015, Alan Spector, chapter 27, in Body Not Recovered, →ISBN:

Synonyms of dead-nuts

Forms of dead-nuts

alternative formdeadnuts
alternative formdead nuts

Words formed from dead-nuts

  • dead-nuts on

Questions about dead-nuts

What does dead-nuts mean?
Dead-nuts means precise, exact, completely accurate.
How do you use dead-nuts in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is dead-nuts?
Dead-nuts can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near dead-nuts in the dictionary

  1. dead-melts
  2. dead-name
  3. dead-named
  4. dead-names
  5. dead-naming
  6. dead-nuts
  7. dead-on
  8. dead-pan
  9. dead-panned
  10. dead-panning
  11. dead-pans

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