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dead set; dead-set; deadset
adverb- completely, utterly AUSTRALIA
From the common collocation of “dead completely” and “set against/for/on” (determined (not) to do or have happen). The Lindsay quotation can be read either as a collocation or an adverb and perhaps represents the period of grammatical and semantic transition. - My mother’s dead set against girls going walks with boys at night. — Norman Lindsay, Halfway to Anywhere, p. 110, 1947
- I don’t believe this. I dead set, fair dinkum, don’t bloody well believe it. — Robert G. Barrett, Davo’s Little Something, p. 205, 1992
- really; honestly AUSTRALIA
- We’re going to make a killing. Just for the extra time it takes to get there. We’ve got enough fuel. Dead set. — Rodney Hall, Kisses of the Enemy, p. 10, 1987
- Youse two should sing topless. Then you’d make some moolah. I would. Deadset. — Kathy Lette, Girls’ Night Out, p. 76, 1987
- He raised an open palm, swearing an oath. “This isn’t down to us, dead set.” — Shane Maloney, Nice Try, p. 178, 1988
- Dead-set, the whole thing looked off to me. — Roy Slaven (John Doyle), Five South Coast Seasons, p. 129, 1992
- Red hair all over the place, I deadset thought it was Ronald McDonald who walked into the bank to share my teller’s box back in 1979. — Paul Vautin, Turn It Up, p. 131, 1995
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