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deadpool

deadpool is the alternative form of dead pool.

Meaning of dead pool

Noun

dead pool (plural dead pools)

  1. A game of prediction or gambling that involves guessing when people, typically celebrities, will die.
    Synonyms:
    death pool
  2. The point at which a reservoir no longer has enough water to flow downstream of its dam, at which point (for example) a dam's turbines are no longer able to generate power.

Verb

deadpool (third-person singular simple present deadpools, present participle deadpooling, simple past and past participle deadpooled)

  1. (ambitransitive, informal) Of a company or project, to fail, to shut down, or to go bankrupt.
    • After burning through $10.5 million in capital that was raised over the three years of its operation, and unable to generate enough revenue to keep the website afloat, the company began looking for a new buyer. Judy's Book was deadpooled in October 2007.[2011?], “Judy's Book”, in The Social Networking Handbook: Everything You Need to Know about Social Networking, [United States?]: [Tebbo], →ISBN, page 633
    • The lbs market is evolving so rapidly that some well-known names (Gowalla, Brightkite, Babbleville) have already gone under—“deadpooled” is the industry term—or been acquired (such as Loopt, which prepaid card specialist Green Dot will use to enter the mobile wallet business).2013, Richard D. Easton, Eric F. Frazier, “Where Are We? gps and gnss Today”, in GPS Declassified: From Smart Bombs to Smartphones, Lincoln, Neb.: Potomac Books, →ISBN

Forms of deadpool

Noun
pluraldeadpools
Verb
third-person singular presentdeadpools
present participledeadpooling
past participledeadpooled
pastdeadpooled

Questions about deadpool

What does deadpool mean?
Deadpool means of a company or project, to fail, to shut down, or to go bankrupt.
What is deadpool the alternative form of?
Deadpool is the alternative form of dead pool.
What part of speech is deadpool?
Deadpool is a verb.
What is the past tense of deadpool?
The past tense of deadpool is deadpooled.

Words near deadpool in the dictionary

  1. deadpanner
  2. deadpanners
  3. deadpanness
  4. deadpanning
  5. deadpans
  6. deadpool
  7. deadpooled
  8. deadpooling
  9. deadpools
  10. deadringer
  11. deadringers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deadpool (page history and authors); dead pool (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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