Reverse Dictionary: DEAD

ADJECTIVES
► ACROSS THE RIVER dead → 1949 US sl.
► AGED IN WOOD dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► ALL AMORT dead; lifeless; spiritless; dejected → L16 arch.
► ALL BETS OFF dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► ALL IN dead  → 1920 Aust. sl.
► ALL OFF dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► ALL OVER dead → E19 sl.
► ALL U.P. dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► ALL WASHED UP dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► ALOFT dead → L18 sl.
► ARSE-UP dead, finished, out of operation → 2001 UK sl.
► ASLEEP dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► ASLEEP IN JESUS dead → L19 US euphemism
► ASLEEP IN THE DEEP dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► ASSED OUT dead, killed → 1980s African-American sl.
► AWAY dead → 1818 sl.
► BACKED dead → L17 sl.
► BASKETED dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► BEHIND THE SCENES dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► BELLY-UP dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► BENEATH dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► BENEATH THE CLOVER dead → 1897 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► BLEUVED dead → 1898 Sc. (Bk.)
► BLOOEY ► BLUEY dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► BLOTTO dead → World War II Amer. sl.
► BLOWN AWAY dead; killed → 2006 US criminals’ sl. (Bk.)
► BONG dead → 1892 Aust. Aboriginal (Bk.)
► BOUND FOR GLORY dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► BOX CITY dead → 1980 US sl.
► BOXED dead → 1966 Amer. sl.
► BOXED UP dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► BRANDED FOR THE ETERNAL RANGE dead → 1945 US Western usage (Bk.)
► BROWN BREAD dead → 1960 UK rhyming sl.
► BUNG dead → 1882 Aust. & NZ sl.
► BUTTERED BREAD dead → 1990s rhyming sl.
► BYE-BYE dead → 1913 Amer. sl.
► CACTUS dead; ruined; spoiled → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► CADAVERIC pert. to dead bodies; characteristic of a corpse → 1835-6
► CALLED HOME dead → 1942 Amer. sl.
► CEASED dead, deceased → 1927 Amer. dial.
► CHECKED OUT dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► CLAGGED THE BAG worn out; dead → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► CLEAN GONE dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► COLD dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► COLD AS A WAGON TIRE dead → 1945 US Western usage (Bk.)
► COLD AS MUTTON completely dead → 1940 sl.
► CONFLUMMOXED dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► CONTENT dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► COOKED dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► COUNTING DAISY ROOTS dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► COUNTING WORMS dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► CRAPPED ► CRAPPED OUT dead; finished → 2006 US sl. (Bk.)
► CROAKED dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► CRUMPED ► CRUMPED OUT dead → 2006 US sl. (Bk.)
► CUT ADRIFT dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► CUT OFF dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► DAISY-PUSHING dead → 1915 army sl.
► DEAD AND GONE dead and buried → 1871 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► DEAD AND GONE BACK dead and buried → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DEAD AND HAPPED UP dead and buried → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DEAD AND LOW LAID dead and buried → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DEAD AS A BED-POST dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► DEAD AS A DOOR-NAIL completely dead; absolutely lifeless; entirely hopeless → c1350
► DEAD AS A HAMMER quite dead → 1866 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► DEAD AS A HATCHET quite dead → 1899 Amer. dial.
► DEAD AS A HERRING completely dead → 1598
► DEAD AS A LOG dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► DEAD AS A MACKEREL quite dead → 1853 Amer. dial.
► DEAD AS A MAGGOT quite dead → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DEAD AS A MAWK quite dead → 1805 Sc.
► DEAD AS A MELL quite dead → 1798 Sc.
► DEAD AS A MOA long dead; outmoded → 1955 NZ sl.
► DEAD AS A NIT quite dead → 1883 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► DEAD AS A PICKLED HERRING quite dead → 1852 Amer. dial.
► DEAD AS A RAG quite dead → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DEAD AS A SMELT quite dead → 1854 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► DEAD AS BILLY-BE-DAMNED very dead → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► DEAD AS CHOPPED SAUSAGE quite dead → 1843 Amer. dial.
► DEAD AS DISCO completely dead → 1995 US sl.
► DEAD AS DOGSHIT absolutely dead → 1980s sl.
► DEAD AS HANNAH EMERSON quite dead → 1907 Amer. dial.
► DEAD AS HECTOR quite dead → 1908 Amer. dial.
► DEAD AS JOB’S TURKEY very dead → 1853 Amer. dial.
► DEAD AS JULIUS CAESAR dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► DEAD AS KELSEY’S NUTS very definitely dead; out of favour → 1930s US sl.
► DEAD AS MUTTON completely dead → 1788 sl.
► DEAD AS MUTTON CHOPS dead → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► DEAD-BEAT dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► DEADER THAN A DOORNAIL dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► DEADER THAN A DUCK indisputably dead → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► DEADER THAN A HERRING dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► DEADER THAN A MACKEREL indisputably dead → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► DEADER THAN A PELCHER indisputably dead (Pelcher = pilchard) → 1927 Amer. dial.
► DEADER THAN A WOODEN INDIAN dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► DEADER THAN KELSEY’S NUTS very definitely dead; out of favour → 1930s US sl.
► DEAD FOR ADO dead and done with → 16C colloq.
► DEADISH somewhat dead → a1450
► DEADO ► DEADOH dead → L19 sl.
► DEATH-STRUCK dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► DISHED dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► DOG TAG ON FILE dead and buried → Amer. World War I sl.
► DONE dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► DONE FOR dead or almost dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► DONE ON TOAST dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► DONE UNDER dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► DONE UP dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► DOUBLED UP dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► DOUSED dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► DOWN FOR THE LONG COUNT dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► DOWSED dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► DROPPED OFF THE HOOKS dead → 1873 Amer. sl.
► EASY dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► ERASED dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► FINISHED dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► FLATTENED ► FLATTENED OUT dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► FLUMMOXED ► FLUMMUXED dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► FLUNKED OUT dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► FOLDED ► FOLDED UP dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► GAFFLED dead → 1990s African-American sl.
► GONE COLD dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► GONE HOME IN A BOX dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► GONE PFFT dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► GONE PHUT dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► GONE THE WAY OF ALL FLESH dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► GONE TO BED dead → 1992 UK sl.
► GONE TO GLORY dead → 1851 Amer. dial.
► GONE TO GRASS dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► GONE TO KINGDOM COME dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► GONE TO PEG TRANTUM’S dead → 1690 obs.
► GONE TO POT dead → 19C
► GONE UNDER dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► GONE UP SALT RIVER dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► GONE UP THE FLUME dead; lost → 1945 US Western sl. (Bk.)
► GONE WEST dead → 1917 Amer. dial.
► GROUNDED FOR GOOD dead → 1942 Amer. aeronautical sl. (Bk.)
► HEAD-LAPPED dead and laid out for burial →1893 Eng. dial.
► HEELS FOREMOST dead → 1902 N. Ireland (Bk.)
► IN ABRAHAM’S-BOSOM dead and gone to heaven → 1599
► IN COLD STORAGE dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► IN STORAGE dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► IN THE DUSTBIN dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► INSTALLED IN FURNACE NO. 10dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► KAPUT dead, finished → 1910s sl.
► KICKED OFF dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► KICKED THE BUCKET dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► KNACKERED dead → 1940 sl.
► KNOCKED OFF ► KNOCKED OUT ► KNOCKED OVER dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► K.O.’D. dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► LAID BY THE WALL dead, but not buried → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LAID-OUT dead; pert. to a corpse arranged for a wake → 20C
► LATE dead, as in ‘the late Mr. Smith’ → 15C
► LETHED dead, defunct → 1623 obs.
► LICKED dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► LIQUIDATED dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► LOAF OF BREAD dead → L19 Brit. rhyming sl.
► LOW dead and buried; lying in the ground → 1808 obs. poetic usage
► MEMALOOSE dead → 1938 Chinook jargon
► MISSING dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► MULLERED dead → 2000 Brit. sl.
► NAPOO ► NAPOOH ► NARPOO finished, ended, dead, no more → 1915 sl.
► NAPOO FINI finished, ended, dead, no more → 1917 sl.
► NECRODIALOGISTICAL consisting of dialogues of the dead → 1715
► NECROGENIC arising from or produced by contact with dead bodies → 1899
► NOW PICKING AT THE COVERLET dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► OFF dead, dying → 1990s Aust. criminals’ sl.
► OFFED dead; killed → World War I sl.
► OFF THE HOOKS dead → 1840 sl.
► ONE-EIGHT-SEVEN dead, murdered → 1990s US sl.
► ONE’S GOOSE IS COOKED dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► ONE’S HASH IS SETTLED dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► ONE’S RACE IS RUN dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► ON THE BLINK dead → 1944 US sl.
► ON THE FLAKES dead; prepared for burial→ 1945 Amer. dial.
► ON THE SHELF dead → 1801 UK sl.
► OUT dead → 1898 sl.
► OUT COLD dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► OUTED killed, dead → 1910 sl., orig. Aust.
► OUT FOR THE LONG COUNT dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► OUT LIKE A LIGHT dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► OUT OF IT dead → 1915 sl.
► OUT OF ONE’S MISERY dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► OUT OF THE GAME dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► OUT OF THE PICTURE dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► OUT OF THE RUNNING dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► OUT OF THE WAY dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► OVERBOARD  dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► PACKED UP dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► PAN BREAD dead → 1988 Sc. rhyming sl.
► PAST IT dead → 1950s sl.
► PEGGED OUT dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► PERISHED OUT dead → 1884 Amer. dial.
► PETERED OUT dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► PIFFED dead; killed → 20C US sl.
► PIFTED dead; killed → 20C US sl.
► PIKED OFF dead → L17 sl., obs.
► PLANTED dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► POOPED OUT dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► POPPED OFF dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► POPPED OFF THE HOOKS dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► POTTED dead and buried → 1860
► PUSHING DAISIES ► PUSHING UP DAISIES  dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► PUSHING THE CLOUDS AROUND dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► PUT OUT dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► PUT OUT FOR THE LONG COUNT dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► PUT TO BED WITH A SHOVEL dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► PUT TO ONE’S FATHERS dead and buried → a1440 obs.
► PUT UNDER dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► RAN THE GOOD RACE dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► REMOVED dead → 1800 Sc.
► RESTING EASY dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► RUBBED OUT dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► RUN DOWN dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► SALTED dead → 20C US sl.
► SALTED AWAY ► SALTED DOWN dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► SEWED IN A BLANKET dead and buried → Amer. World War I sl.
► SEWED UP dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► SHUFFLED CLEAN OUT OF THE DECK ► SHUFFLED OUT OF THE DECK  dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► SHUFFLED OUT dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► SIX FEET UNDER dead and buried → 1942 sl.
► SNUFFED OUT dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► SOUL ALOFT dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► STIFF dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► STONE-DEAD dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► TAKING A GROUND SWEAT dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► TAKING AN EARTH BATH dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► THROWN FOR A LOSS dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► TOES UP lying dead → 1851
► TRUMPED dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► UNDER dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► UNDER-BOARD dead, but not yet buried → 1836 Ireland
► UNDER GLASS dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► UNDER HATCHES dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► UNDER THE DAISIES dead and buried → 1866 sl.
► UNDER THE HATCHES dead; in trouble, in jail → M16 sl.
► UP THE FLUE dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► USED-UP dead; killed in battle → World War I US sl.
► WASHED UP dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► WENT WEST dead → 1970 Amer. dial.
► WEST dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► WINKED OUT dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► WITH A GARDEN ON THE STOMACH dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► WITH THE ANGELS dead, deceased → 1801
► WOMBAT dead → 1984 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► YDEAD dead → 1387 obs.

ADVERBS
► A-DEAD dead → 1879

NOUNS
► ANOTHER COUNTRY the realm of the dead, esp. regarded as a haven after life on earth; the state of death → 1597
► CADAVERIETY deadness → 1651 obs.
► CARRION a dead body; a corpse or carcass → a1225 obs.
► DB a dead body →1973 US sl.
► DEADLIHEAD dead condition; the state of the dead → 1612 obs.
► DEADLIHOOD dead condition; the state of the dead → 1659 obs.
► GREAT MAJORITY, THE the dead → 1721 obs.
► LATEWAKE a vigil kept by relatives and friends over a dead body till burial → 1709 Sc.
► LOWER WORLD, THE the mythical abode of the dead, imagined as being under the earth, the underworld; the place of the damned, hell → 1597
► LYKE-WAKE the watch kept at night over a dead body → c1405
► NECROLATRY worship of or excessive reverence displayed towards the dead → 1826
► NECROLOGY 1. the history of the dead → 1830
2. a list of persons who have died within a certain time; a death-roll → 1854
► NECROMANCY the pretended art of revealing future events, etc., by means of communication with the dead → a1300
► NECROMANIA an obsession with death or the dead → 1991 (Bk.)
► NECROMANTY the pretended art of revealing future events, etc., by means of communication with the dead → 1560 obs.
► NECROPHILISM a morbid fancy for the dead, or for contact with dead bodies → 1864
► NECROPHOBIA fear of dead bodies → 1849
► QUARRY a heap of dead men; a pile of dead bodies → 1589 obs.
► SETTING UP a wake for the dead → 1880s African-American sl.

NOUNS – PERSON
► BUZZARD-BAIT a dead or doomed person → 1851 Amer. sl.
► BUZZARD MEAT a dead or doomed person → 1899 Amer. sl.
► CADAVER CADET a person who obtains sexual gratification from a dead body → 1987 US sl.
► CROAKER a dying person, or one who has just died → 1873 UK sl.
► DAISY-PUSHER a dead person → 1919 US Army sl.
► DAISY-SHOVER a dead person → 1928 US Army sl.
► DEADBEATER a dead person → 20C Amer. sl.
► DEADER a dead person; a corpse → 1853 sl.
► DEADIE a dead person → 1970s sl.
► DEAD ONE someone who is dead or on the verge of death → 1900s US sl.
► DECEASED, THE a dead person → L15 euphemism
► DECEDENT a dead person; a corpse → L16
► DOG MEAT a dead person → 2006 US sl. (Bk.)
► FLATLINER a person whose cardiac or brain activity registers as a flatline, and who is therefore dead → 20C colloq.
► FLOATER a dead body found floating in water → 1890 US sl.
► GONE CORBIE a dead man → 1885 Eng. dial.
► GONE GOSLING a dead person → 1912 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► GONER a person who has died → 1847 sl.
► LANDOWNER a dead person; someone who ‘owns’ and occupies a grave → 19C Brit. & US colloq.
► MADONNA a person who has died or is unavoidably doomed to die very soon → 2004 UK rhyming sl. for ‘goner’
► MAGGOT MEAT a dead person, or one about to be killed → 1970s US sl.
► NECROMANCER a person who claims to carry on a communication with the dead → a1300
► NECROMANCIEN a person who claims to carry on a communication with the dead → 1303 obs.
► NECROMANT a person who claims to carry on a communication with the dead → 1598 obs.
► NECROMANTIC a person who claims to carry on a communication with the dead → 1574 obs.
► NECROMANTIST a person who claims to carry on a communication with the dead → a1607 obs.
► NECROPHILE a person having a morbid fancy for the dead → 1895 
► STIFF a person who has died → 1859 sl. 

PHRASES
► D.O.A. dead on arrival; a notation indicating that a person was pronounced dead upon arrival at a hospital → 20C US
► GONE OVER THE RANGE deceased → 1945 US Western usage (Bk.)
► GONE TO HIS LONG HOME has died, gone to his final resting place → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► ON THE FLAKES dead, laid out → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► THE GRASS IS WAVIN’ OVER HIM said of a dead person → 1945 US Western usage (Bk.)

VERBS
► ACT POSSUM to pretend to be dead or ill → 1844 US sl. obs.
► BE A DEADER to be recently dead → 20C sl., orig. US
► BE GATHERED TO ONE’S FATHERS to be dead and buried → 1382
► COME THE POSSUM OVER A PERSON to pretend to be dead or ill → 1844 US sl. obs.
► COUNT THE WORMS to be dead → 20C sl.
► DESYCHRONIZE to drop dead → 1970 US students’ sl. (Bk.)
► LAY A CORPSE ► LAY CORPSE to lie dead; to be laid out for burial → 1927 Amer. dial.
► PLAY POSSUM to pretend to be dead or ill → 1844 US sl.
► PUSH CLOUDS to die; to be dead → L19 US sl.
► PUSH UP DAISIES to be dead and buried → a1918 sl.
► SLEEP UNDER GRASS to be dead and buried → 1914
► SLEEP WITH ONE’S FATHERS to be dead and buried → 1382
► THIR to strike dead; to frighten out of the senses; to hurt → 1746 Eng. dial. obs.