drop dead

Speech parts

1. drop dead - Verb

2. drop dead - Adverb

3. drop dead - Interjection

4. drop dead - Phrase

Meaning

extremely

pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

drop-dead

Synonyms

pass die exit expire perish choke decease go pass away croak kick the bucket buy the farm conk go away pop off

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Antonyms

no hard feelings i'm not mad i'm not upset no anger no ill will no offence taken

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Hypernyms

turn change state

Hyponyms

fall suffocate yield drown abort starve

Examples

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive. Samuel Goldwyn

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ray Bradbury

Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. Ray Bradbury

I will try to write books until I drop dead. Cornelia Funke

If you don't live though and drop dead from it, can the Simi eat you? Akri says the Simi can't eat no living people, but he never said no doubt them newly dead people. Maybe that's why he don't let me near them fresh dead. (Simi) Sherrilyn Kenyon

This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you. Lyndon B. Johnson

Words in the phrase

drop dead

Close letter words and terms

drop crotching drop curtain drop D drop dimes drop down drop down suddenly