deadass
Plural: deadasses
Adj
- Of a place: having very little activity; dead.
- Genuine, real. (used as a negative intensifier)
- Dead serious.
Adv
- Directly, dead on.
- Really, seriously, actually.
Noun
- A lazy or unenergetic person.
Examples
- I was deadass starving.
- You need to quit talking about my mama. I'm deadass.
Origin / Etymology
From dead + -ass (“used to intensify an adjective”). Apparently originating in New York and popularized around the late 1990s–2000s.
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