dead-eye
verb (used with object)
to make a successful shot or score with perfect aim; to kick, hit, or throw a ball or puck with great accuracy.
dead-eyes
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pluralof dead-eye.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Maguire meanwhile dead-eyes one straight at the flag.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 5, 2021
Jimmy dead-eyes him, says, “Goodbye, Chris,” and then does a full sad limo ride off into the sunset, crying about how he and Chris spent four whole days together, and it was definitely love.
From Time ● Jan. 19, 2015
Lerer dead-eyes him and wants to get on with it.
From Forbes ● Apr. 17, 2013
All spars are of yellow pine; the rigging is of fishing-line; and the blocks, five-sixteenths of an inch long, and the dead-eyes, one-fourth of an inch in diameter, are cut out of any hard wood.
From Harper's Young People, April 6, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
Plates of iron with their lower ends bolted to the ship's sides under the channels, and to these plates the dead-eyes are fastened; other plates lap over and secure them below.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
