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dead cert noun a certainty UK, 1889 Originally sporting and gambling usage.- He’s a dead cert for fourteen [years] PD (=penal detention) when he’s old enough. — Frank Norman, Bang To Rights, p. 158, 1958
- — Barry Humphries, The Traveller’s Tool, 1985
- And if this year’s show is anything to go by, that’ll be a dead farkin’ cert. — Picture, p. 14, 7 December 1994
- LEE: ... 3.30 tomorrow, Fontwell [...] FIREBUG: Dead cert? LEE: Oh yeah. — Guy Ritchie et al., Lock, Stock... & Four Stolen Hooves, p. 25, 2000
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