dead-pan
Collocations
4ADJ.
all, comic
VERB + DEAD-PAN
asked, laugh
DEAD-PAN + NOUN
announcement, expression, right-hand
PREP.
down, in, in, with
Definitions
adj
Alternative form of deadpan.
He stared for a few seconds, then asked with a dead-pan expression, “And some chiange?”
Jimbo had seen many drifters in all his years, and they all had that dead-pan look in their eyes.
adv
Alternative form of deadpan.
There was his left-hand head talking and sort of yapping that silly laugh of his, dead-pan, while the right-hand head was all creased up with giggle lines.
Dead-pan, he took down Matthew's broken explanations, shook his hand warmly, refused a drink and a plaster for his leg, and ran for the first public call-box as hard as he could go.
noun
Alternative form of deadpan.
They are the eerie half-human attendants at anything that is new on Broadway — the dead-pans of the Theatre Guild openings.
The older people have “Japanesey” dead-pans, whereas many of the American generation can display a great variety of emotions facially.
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6He stared for a few seconds, then asked with a dead-pan expression, “And some chiange?”
WiktionaryJimbo had seen many drifters in all his years, and they all had that dead-pan look in their eyes.
WiktionaryIt might be better to see the title almost as comic, in its dead-pan announcement of an Important Political Issue.
WiktionaryThere was his left-hand head talking and sort of yapping that silly laugh of his, dead-pan, while the right-hand head was all creased up with giggle lines.
WiktionaryDead-pan, he took down Matthew's broken explanations, shook his hand warmly, refused a drink and a plaster for his leg, and ran for the first public call-box as hard as he could go.
Wiktionary"Why would you think that?" asked Daisy, dead-pan.
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