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dead-pan en · ADJ
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of deadpan.
Jimbo had seen many drifters in all his years, and they all had that dead-pan look in their eyes.
2004, Donna Robie, One Quiet Night: Murder in New Hampshire, page 30:It might be better to see the title almost as comic, in its dead-pan announcement of an Important Political Issue.
2015, Mark Ravenhill, Citizenship, page 5:He stared for a few seconds, then asked with a dead-pan expression, “And some chiange?”
2000, Nelson Williams, Jr., Blood Double, page 96:
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dead-pan en · ADV
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of deadpan.
"Why would you think that?" asked Daisy, dead-pan.
2015, Robin Stevens, Arsenic For Tea: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.
2012, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Night and Silence, Who is Here?: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.
2007, Frederik Pohl, Platinum Pohl:
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dead-pan en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) 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.
1936, Edmund Wilson, Travels in Two Democracies, page 51:The older people have “Japanesey” dead-pans, whereas many of the American generation can display a great variety of emotions facially.
1940, Louis Adamic, From Many Lands, page 224:Good coarse romantic-adventure nonsense, exploiting the expressive dead-pans of Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell, a young man and a young woman who would probably enjoy doing in real life what they have to do here for RKO.
1971, Manny Farber, Negative Space: Manny Farber on the Movies, page 58:
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dead-pan en · VERB
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of deadpan.
Thus, "I know where I am," Bartleby dead-pans, when offered better food during his final incarceration.
1999, Gabriel Brahm, The Post-human Condition:'I don't have a black tie,' she dead-panned. He didn't laugh.
2012, Jackie Collins, American Star:"I've long admired men who have risen from humble beginnings," Mulholland says, and then dead-pans: "Dr. Laffer was educated at Yale."
1983, Rod McQueen, The Money-spinners:
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