Definition of DEADASS

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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