dead-pan

adj 1adv 1noun 1verb 1

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adj

1

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

1

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

1

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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