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deadly
adjective- excellent US
Especially common in Australian Aboriginal English. - — Clarence Major, Dictionary of Afro-American Slang, p. 45, 1970
- Right now I’m enjoying a Jolt cola with a dash of Henson’s Orange soda. It’s deadly. — Wayne’s World 2, 1993
- She really knew how to smoke, all right. Probably blow smoke rings and all. “Deadly,” she said, and passed me the durrie. — Phillip Gwynne, Deadly Unna?, p. 123, 1998
- Used when I was growing up in Darwin, still used by my friends when I go back there. Commonly used to describe things which are pretty cool, like a deadly car, bike or clothes, also used as a general exclamation like “that’s deadly” or “too deadly for you”. — Wordmap (www.abc.net.au/wordmap), 2003
- very boring US
- — American Speech, p. 303, December 1955: “Wayne university slang”
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