deader
English
Adjective
deader
Noun
deader (plural deaders)
- (informal, chiefly humorous) One who is deceased, or will shortly become so.
- I could tell he was a deader by the way his eyes were glazed over; there was no life left in those eyes.
- 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet:
- "No, nor drink. And Mr. Bender, he was the fust to go, and then Indian Pete, and then Mrs. McGregor, and then Johnny Hones, and then, dearie, your mother."
- "Then mother's a deader too," cried the little girl, dropping her face in her pinafore and sobbing bitterly.
- "Yes, they all went except you and me...
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