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dead-nuts
adj 1adv 1
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2VERB + DEAD-NUTS
boats, nailed
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Definitions
adj
1
Precise, exact, completely accurate.
Bator, after hundreds of hours spent studying publicity stills, re-running tapes of the movie, and talking to cast and crew members, came up with a deadnuts duplication. Late last year, an exact replica of the Hopper chopper was completed, too.
“Told you that bitch was trouble. You gotta listen to old Mike.” “Okay, you were dead-nuts on that one.”
adv
1
Precisely, exactly, completely.
Jockey: My opinion's of little account, But I don't mind admitting, yer honour, I am not dead nuts on my mount.
And all the boats are dead-nuts even.
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Bator, after hundreds of hours spent studying publicity stills, re-running tapes of the movie, and talking to cast and crew members, came up with a deadnuts duplication. Late last year, an exact repli
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“Told you that bitch was trouble. You gotta listen to old Mike.” “Okay, you were dead-nuts on that one.”
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Jockey: My opinion's of little account, But I don't mind admitting, yer honour, I am not dead nuts on my mount.
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And all the boats are dead-nuts even.
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I nailed the localizer dead-nuts center, squared the glideslope indicator, slowed my airspeed and rode the needles all the way down at a steady ninety knots.
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